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Virtual OmniBUS Tour! Last stop: What Valley Forge in 1777 tells us about public lands today

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After traveling several thousand miles and experiencing a spectacular array of wild lands, we’re stopping in Pennsylvania to put it all in perspective. By Christopher Lancette more

The Wild, Wild East

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This feature was first published in the 2008 Wilderness Magazine. To receive the annual magazine and quarterly newsletters from The Wilderness Society, become a member today! Christopher Percy Collier is a Connecticut writer who has authored three regional guidebooks and has had stories published by National Geographic Traveler, Outside, and numerous other magazines. By Christopher Percy Collier more

The Return of Mindfulness

Between the time I was born and the time I entered kindergarten, we lost John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But we also gained: the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and The Wilderness Act. Even amid the loss and disarray (rioting in our cities and body counts in a senseless war being my earliest memories of television), there was the promise of freedom and wholeness. more