Restore Neglected Public Lands
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America gave to the world the idea of national parks and the concept of public lands open to all.
But facilities for those visiting America's public lands stand neglected, along with the country's transportation and commercial infrastructure.
…Climate change has hit public lands in the West with a triple whammy. Wet early-season storms wreaked havoc on federal lands in the Northwest. Beetle infestations are killing such essential trees as white bark pine in the Rockies. Fires have blackened forests from our Pasayten Wilderness to highlands of San Diego County.
Restoration needs to be a national priority.
Citizen groups are doing work once done by U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service crews. The Forest Service has been reduced in some areas to a skeletal staff.
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Sam Goldman
Sam has been with The Wilderness Society since Fall 2007. He came most recently from M+R Strategic Services in Washington, DC where he worked with national environmental groups to improve their online campaign work and field organizing capacity. Before that, Sam was the Assistant National Field Director for U.S. PIRG where he covered a variety of issues including the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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