Wilderness Magazine 2006-2007
The Wilderness Society's 2006-2007 Magazine, Wilderness, is here! This edition's highlights include articles about disabled vets buoyed by wilderness, long-haul birds, western wilderness in trouble and making the most of Maine's woods.
William H. Meadows
Establishing wilderness areas gets more difficult all the time. One important response to these challenges is to sit down with everyone who has an interest in the lands we believe should be preserved.
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Karen Bossick
As severely disabled veterans try to rebuild their lives, many are finding help in environs far removed from the sterile halls of hospitals and rehabilitation centers. They’re finding it in the shadows of Ponderosa pines that tower over wild and scenic rivers like the Salmon, which churns more than 200 miles through one of America’s largest wilderness areas.
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Allen Best
Wyoming’s Adobe Town is not really a town, but a giant museum of geological curiosities located in one of the most remote areas of the United States. But this unusual urban landscape is, in a sense, under siege. The oil and gas industry is marching on Adobe Town and many other western areas that have remarkable wilderness qualities. Read More...
Rick Steelhammer
Seneca Creek, in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest, is waterfall-rich region full of wildlife and home to a self-sustaining population of trout. It is also one of the East’s largest remaining public roadless areas not yet protected via addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Read More...
Jack Horan
Across the country, drastically reduced funding for investments in natural areas is greatly increasing the risk that they will be subdivided and developed. Read More...
Gillian Burnes
SugarWood gallery in Farmington, Maine is a model enterprise, with a mission of fostering an ecologically benign, wholly wood products industry in a region whose mills have all but disappeared.
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Pete Dunne
Long celebrated for its caribou, muskoxen, and polar and grizzly bears, the Arctic Refuge is also, and very much, a 19.3-million-acre bird nesting area and nursery. And while relatively few people will ever travel to the Arctic, virtually all North American residents are visited, annually, by the birds that call the refuge their summer home. Read More...
Most of us can name a place that is our idea of paradise. We asked a number people to tell us about their favorite places, and here are five of the answers. Read More...
Kayci Cook Collins has just completed a quarter century in a National Park Service uniform. Her father, both of her grandfathers and her great-grandfather were all in the Park Service. Read More...
Gary Ferguson
An essay of one man's journey across the West to scatter his wife's ashes in her favorite wilderness places
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Jeneda Benally
An essay about the fight to protect the San Francisco Peaks, a majestic oasis and sacred place to many tribal nations
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Daniel Pinkwater
An essay about what one hiker learned by walking his dog Read More...
Member Profile of Edward Hoagland, an author, teacher and passionate environmentalist Read More...
Our regional offices have been hard at work on local, state, and regional challenges. Read about our efforts to mobilize support for legislation that would safeguard part of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia and our campaign to create new wilderness areas in central Idaho’s Boulder and White Cloud Mountains.
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With both Congress and the president pushing for more development across some of Americans' most cherished landscapes, 2006 was a very challenging year for conservationists. Even so, the support provided by our members, allies and partner groups, has helped The Wilderness Society achieve a great deal this year. Here's a sampling. Read More...
The Wilderness Society recognized citizens who made significant contributions to the effort to protect America's wildlands and wildlife, such as Terry Tempest Williams, a writer whose words inspire others to cherish the environment. Read More...
John Daniel
Poetry by Linda Hogan, Ann Fisher-Wirth and Joseph Bruchac Read More...
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