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Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation.
It is our calling and our passion to protect America’s wilderness, not as a relic of our nation’s past, but as a thriving ecological community that is central to life itself.
To meet our goals, we use science and collaboration with communities and conservation groups to bring about sensible policies and positive change in land conservation.
Above all, we work to achieve our mission: to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places.
Our issues:
Wilderness
Global Warming
Energy
Roadless forests
Stewardship
Committed to Collaboration and Stewardship
We provide scientific, economic, legal and policy guidance to land managers, communities, local conservation groups and state and federal decision-makers. In doing so, we ensure the best management of our lands – national forests, parks and refuges, as well as public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Integrity Rooted in Science
Science is the foundation of all we do. We never bend the facts to suit our purposes. In fact, our very founders were scientists and policy experts, many of them public servants:
Robert Marshall, among the first to suggest that large tracts of Alaska be preserved.
Aldo Leopold,world-renowned for his ground-breaking work on an ethical treatment of the land.
Benton MacKaye, the “father” of the Appalachian Trail.
The Wilderness Society remains true to our founders’ principles and dedicated to the concept that careful, credible science, bold advocacy and unswerving vision are essential underpinnings of conservation policy.
more @
wilderness.org/
wilderness.org/about-us
wilderness.org/
Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the conservation movement in wilderness protection, writing and passing the landmark Wilderness Act and winning lasting protection for 107 million acres of Wilderness, including 56 million acres of spectacular lands in Alaska, eight million acres of fragile desert lands in California and millions more throughout the nation.
It is our calling and our passion to protect America’s wilderness, not as a relic of our nation’s past, but as a thriving ecological community that is central to life itself.
To meet our goals, we use science and collaboration with communities and conservation groups to bring about sensible policies and positive change in land conservation.
Above all, we work to achieve our mission: to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places.
Our issues:
Wilderness
Global Warming
Energy
Roadless forests
Stewardship
Committed to Collaboration and Stewardship
We provide scientific, economic, legal and policy guidance to land managers, communities, local conservation groups and state and federal decision-makers. In doing so, we ensure the best management of our lands – national forests, parks and refuges, as well as public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Integrity Rooted in Science
Science is the foundation of all we do. We never bend the facts to suit our purposes. In fact, our very founders were scientists and policy experts, many of them public servants:
Robert Marshall, among the first to suggest that large tracts of Alaska be preserved.
Aldo Leopold,world-renowned for his ground-breaking work on an ethical treatment of the land.
Benton MacKaye, the “father” of the Appalachian Trail.
The Wilderness Society remains true to our founders’ principles and dedicated to the concept that careful, credible science, bold advocacy and unswerving vision are essential underpinnings of conservation policy.
more @
wilderness.org/
wilderness.org/about-us
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Re: Wilderness Society
Thu, April 23, 2009 - 8:41 AMWe couldn't agree more...
Jon, Thanks for all the amazing information... it's inspiring.
We have a little mission here to bring people back to the earth, to feel the simplicity and to enjoy the wilderness.. We would like to see people camping in the forest, clearing trails, living as much as they can on what is lying around... and having that total meditational experience that this environment gives us...
We are creating a series of awareness courses for city folk mainly, to have an experience of themselves whilst being nutrured by nature.. facilitation, learning to live in a group, building fires, and a lot more... We all do what we can according to our own passions...
Here's a blog posting we made...
Has Land Got Feeling?
I have been on an earthly mission for most of my life.
I have always known somehow that the land is precious. I spent my childhood years hanging out on the reservation, in the forests and mountains. I have lived in the forest many times over the years. My experience has shown me over and over that the earth is my natural home as it is for all of us.
And NOW after spending twenty years in the asphalt jungle, I know that the time has come to go home to Ma – to Return to Earth.
When I enter the woods I feel alive, I feel the healing energy, and I feel at one with the trees and the universe. And Ma talks to me through the trees and the wind and the water and the indigenous life, just as she talked to me when I was a young boy.
She is talking to all of us if we only take the time to stop and listen
She waits, patiently, through her pain, forgiving and all embracing inviting the mankind to venture out from the city machine and experience coming home to her. And the more you enjoy her natural bounty the more you begin to feel alive and the more you tune into the connection to all that is.
And like that life is very different
I wrote this when I was twelve years old
Has Land Got Feeling?
How do we know the land has no feeling?
It may be screaming and hollering for help deep inside.
We cover its surface with garbage and trash and we fill its air with smog and gas.
How do we know the land has no feeling?
We fill its waters with oil and waste and all kinds of muck.
We trample the land down with so many feet.
I suppose it is crying and weeping.
We build smog filling factories where once there were crops growing.
How do we know the land has no feeling?
By Pierre Soleil age 12 1971
Harmonic Emergence - Return to Earth
H.E.R.E.
people.tribe.net/windwaterclear H.E.R.E BLOG
harmonicemergence.org/ - OUR FOUNDATION SITE
www.panoramio.com/user/2861230 A photographic tribute to the hallowed forests we roam
groups.yahoo.com/group/justcamping/ SMALL INFORMAL FOREST GATHERINGS. More than just camping
www.everytrail.com/
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Wildlife Society
Thu, April 23, 2009 - 4:43 PMLest we forget, Aldo Leopold was NOT a preservationist, but a conservationist.
There is a huge difference.
I support The Wildlife Society
The Wildlife Society is committed to a world where humans and wildlife co-exist.
We work to ensure that wildlife and their habitats are conserved through management actions that take into careful consideration relevant scientific information.
We create opportunities for this to occur by involving professional wildlife managers, disseminating wildlife science, advocating for effective wildlife policy and law, and building the active support of an informed citizenry.
TWS’s mission is to represent and serve the professional community of scientists, managers, educators, technicians, planners, and others who work actively to study, manage, and conserve wildlife and its habitats worldwide.
The members of The Wildlife Society manage, conserve, and study wildlife populations and habitats. They actively manage forests, conserve wetlands, restore endangered species, conserve wildlife on private and public lands, resolve wildlife damage and disease problems, and enhance biological diversity.
TWS members are active across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as internationally.
The products of The Wildlife Society include essential, practical, and objective information for wildlife professionals. We provide research, policy information, and practical tools in print and electronic forms, along with vibrant professional networks that allow solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges to be anchored in science.
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