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Chaparral Trails VOLUME 20 NO 2 JUL-SEPT 2010 ALONG THE CHAPARRAL TRAILS by Ann Ronald choruses and even yodeled A personal account of the North a cowboy San Diego County Broadwalk sweetheart May 20-24, 2010 twang or two. By the time Great Old Broads from half Judy fi nished a dozen western states and singing, the local the District of Columbia Community Hall began gathering on Thursday was sizzling with aft ernoon, May 20th. We Great Old Broad camped in the chaparral of energy. northern San Diego County, But she wasn’t Ann Ronald and Jim Case on in a place with a perfect name done yet! It the Broadwalk Beauty Moun- to match the scenery—Oak turned that Judy tain hike. Photo by Vicki Hoover. Grove. has other talents- SIDES Our Spring 2010 Broadwalk -rope twirling, then pistol got off to a foot-stompin’ start, spinning, and fi nally whip with local singer and song- cracking. The air sizzled and writer Judy Taylor leading the snapped around us, while way. For nearly an hour aft er Judy performed her skillful dinner, Judy alternately belted tricks. Fired up by her energy, out and crooned an array of we were totally ready for the western tunes tinged with three-plus Broadwalk days overtones of the Louisiana ahead. In this issue: Bayou. While she strummed We got busy on Friday, when In a Broad Sense 2 and strutt ed on-stage, we Broads joined her for the (continued on page 6) Broads on Board 3 Broads Beat 4 Study A Broad 8 Broader Wilderness 10 Broadbands in Action 12 BLM Seeks Comment on Feral Horses 14 Meet the New HLP Director 15 North San Diego County Broadwalkers. Photo by Elizabeth Hagen THE NEWSLETTER OF GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS BROAD A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RONNI EGAN The Telluride Mountainfi lm chicks whose stomachs Festival, held every Memorial are packed with plastic Day weekend for the past bott le caps, disposable 32 years, brings together lighters, toothbrushes, and Great Old Broads for Wilderness fi lmmakers, writers, artists, and unidentifi able bits of plastic PO Box 2924 thinkers from around the world fed to them by their parents, Durango, CO 81302 with an audience of everyone who gathered them off of 970-385-9577 from climbing bums to blue- the sea’s surface, having [email protected] haired philanthropists. I have mistaken them for food. www.greatoldbroads.org had the privilege of att ending Mr. Jordan was literally in it for the past two years, and tears as he described his two Staff Veronica Egan, Executive Director this year I was weeks of photographing Rose Chilcoat, Associate Director profoundly hundreds of the dead birds, Gary Skiba, HLP Director moved by knowing there was utt erly Joyce Thomsen, Membership Maven what I saw, IN A nothing he could do about Logan Morley, HLP Tech. Coord. Anne Benson, Comm. Coord. heard, and felt. the situation. The trash in Amy Johnston, Grant Writer this gyre (there are 6 such The topic of gyres in the world at present) Board of Directors the Friday BROAD comes from the insatiable Karen Cox, California - Vice-Chair Symposium hunger for the cheap, the Sally Ferguson, Idaho was “The Libby Ingalls, California SENSE disposable, the MORE Saralaine Millet, Arizona Sixth Great STUFF that humanity Karen Ryman, Colorado Extinction,” craves. His work can be Amy Shima, Utah which is occurring now. seen at Donna Smith, Washington DC - Sec. The following three Action Films Lois Snedden, Nevada - Chair days of fi lms and events htt p://www.chrisjordan. Advisory Board really brought home the (to nudge us com/current_set2. Steve Allen, Joe Breddan, Katie message that the planet is php?id=11 Fite, Dave Foreman, Maggie Fox, in big trouble and that it Steve Gilbert, Fred Goodsell, into action) (In a related video Ginger Harmon, Margi Hoff mann, will take a fundamental Vicky Hoover, Fran Hunt, shift in human thinking worth watching, Capt. Cecelia Hurwich, Dale Johnson, and behavior if we don’t want to see life Charles Moore discusses the impact our Frandee Johnson, Linda Liscom, as we know it, and I mean all life, not just trash is having on sea life in the Pacifi c. Chuck McAfee, MB McAfee, htt p://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/capt_ Liz McCoy, Sarah Michael, Erin ours, to be radically changed by the end of Moore, Marcey Olajos, Tim this century. Hence, this Broad Sense is in charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic. Peterson, Lynn Prebble, Marilyn some ways a movie review. You will need html) Price-Reinbolt, Cindy Shogan, to watch closely for showings of the fi lms Liz Thomas, Susan Tixier, Joro “Bag It!” is a fi lm by Telluride fi lmmaker Walker, Melyssa Watson (PBS and art theaters) or look for them on Susan Beraza about our throwaway line. But please, do look for them, because Great Old Broads for Wilderness is society, with a clear message of “reduce, all who saw them in Telluride felt that they a national, non-profi t organization reuse and recycle.” Although this fi lm is that uses the voices and activism ought to be required viewing for everyone thoroughly entertaining and engaging, of elders to preserve and protect in schools, city halls, Congress, and wilderness and wild lands. it tells the sad truth that while recycling elsewhere. Mainstream media should make Conceived by older women who plastic might make us feel good, it love wilderness, Broads gives them top stories. is costly and accounts for only a tiny voice to the millions of older (and not so able) Americans who want The most moving presentation was by Chris fraction of the plastic that is produced to protect their public lands as Jordan, an artist and photographer who worldwide. Recyling alone cannot stem Wilderness for this and future the tide of material that is poisoning our generations. We bring voice, photographed Laysan Albatross chicks on knowledge, commitment, and Midway Island, which is near the North oceans. That’s right, as plastics degrade, humor to the movement to protect Pacifi c Gyre. This vast circular ocean current the tiny particles become sponges for our last wild places on earth. now contains an estimated 600 million tons toxins in the water and are consumed Today, the Great Old Broads for by creatures that would normally eat Wilderness has more than 4,500 of plastic trash that is causing environmental members. You do not have to be havoc in that part of the Pacifi c. plankton, thus working their way up female, or old, or even great for that the food chain, and concentrating in the matter! to join—but you must be “bold” for wilderness. Please join us Perhaps some of you have seen the bodies of the things we like to eat, such on the adventure. Wilderness needs photos of partially decomposed albatross your help! (continued on page 11) Please credit Broads for any reprinted articles. 2 SUMMER 2010 WWW.GREATOLDBROADS.ORG BROA D S ON BOA RD A KAREN RYMAN FAVORITE QUOTE: We enlisted two new Directors this year bringing our Broads Board to eight and adding two new home states to the list. Amy Shima joins us from Rockville, Utah and Karen Ryman weighs in from Aspen, Colorado. Both found Broads through interaction with “original” Broads. And both women have their sites set on broadcasting Broads word to a broader audi- NOW I SEE THE ence and “activating” that audience to advocate for wilderness and wild lands. SECRET OF THE Amy Karen Amy Shima has been Karen Ryman fell in MAKING OF THE interested in and cared love with the great about wild animals outdoors as a girl in BEST PERSONS. IT and wild places for California where she as long as she can went on many Girl IS TO GROW IN remember. She grew Scout camping trips up in Oak Park, Il- in the San Bernardino THE OPEN AIR AND linois - home of Ernest Mountains. But her Hemingway and Frank appreciation for the TO EAT AND SLEEP Lloyd Wright – and fell environments in in love with the desert which she hiked and WITH THE EARTH. southwest during her camped was awak- Amy Shima fi rst trip to Canyonlands and Arches ened and cultivated NP in the late 1970s. when she moved to - WALT WHITMAN, Aspen, Colorado, and ONG OF THE PEN OAD For most of Amy’s professional career, she has prac- later by Great Old S O R ticed wildlife/zoo medicine. As a staff member of the Broads for Wilderness San Diego Zoo, she was involved with the California founder Dott ie Fox. “We hiked and camped together Condor Recovery program as well as a number of oth- and she’d talk about the land around her and her ex- er endangered species programs. She has also fi lled periences with people she’d meet.” in for others as a temporary veterinarian at a number of zoos in the US and Australia. “I have always felt Karen hopes to give that it is a great privilege to be able to work with wild others the type of ex- animals, whether they are in the wild (where we wish perience she had with they could live but may not be able to safely due to the Dott ie. “I’d like to see pressures created by too many people) or in captivity that we communicate where their presence can serve to educate and en- more with those who lighten people who now live far removed the natural use the land – help world.” them understand the value of the land that Amy found Great Old Broads for Wilderness at a they are using.” SUWA Roundup in southern Utah.
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