Wilderness Magazine 2007-2008
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
I have a special feeling for this time of year. One reason is the brilliance of fall foliage. These days, when I admire such scenes, an additional thought comes to mind: These trees are also doing duty in our fight against global warming. American forests absorb about 10 percent of the carbon dioxide that the United States produces. Read More...
By Gillian Burnes
"The Mahoosucs are one of the few places you can go and not hear machines, and the variety of environments you move through to get up into the range is incredible," says Ginger Lawson, a Shelburne, New Hampshire, resident since 1994. Read More...
Most of us can name a place that is our idea of paradise. Its allure may stem from the memories, the scenery, the wildlife, the things we do, the sounds and smells, or some combination of ingredients. We asked a number people to tell us about their favorite places, and here are five of the answers. Read More...
Dr. David Payer was a veterinarian in 1989 when he answered a call from the National Park Service to help assess wildlife damages caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. “I had always been drawn to wild places, but Alaska offered a completely different order of wildness, and I was hooked,” he explained. Read More...
Jane Braxton Little
Global warming, paved over farms and forests, swarms of off-road vehicles on ever dwindling public lands -- it’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of our planet. But a fresh generation of conservation activists is emerging from the doom and gloom. Read More...
Bert Gildart
Though our 702 wilderness areas are “protected,” every one of them will be affected by the relatively rapid changes in global climate brought on by humans’ excessive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Read More...
Tom Toles
An essay by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Read More...
Jennifer Anderson
The average, non-scientist wilderness lover who wants to be heard on a proposed public land-use project may wonder: Does it make any difference if I take advantage of the opportunity to submit my views? Sometimes it seems as if even overwhelming public opinion goes unheard, as in the case of snowmobiling in Yellowstone. Read More...
Annie Young
“I’m sorry,” the doctor said. “I don’t have an answer for you. You are losing your sight.” I enrolled in a rehabilitation program for the blind and visually impaired. One day an instructor approached me and said, “Annie, you need a break. You should go on this kayaking trip that Wilderness Inquiry is offering and get some fresh air.” Read More...
Jim Robbins
Our forests are in trouble. Every stakeholder describes a National Forest System so short of funds that trails and roads are not being maintained, campgrounds are closed, and bridges are falling apart. Nor is the Forest Service able to manage the proliferation of ATVs, dirt bikes, and other off-road vehicles. Read More...
Drew Lanham
On chill autumn mornings as I sit in a tree stand deer hunting, I seem to spend as much time watching white-throated sparrows as I do waiting for whitetails. Both birding and hunting are seamless parts of my love for nature. That I happen to be a black man so enraptured by wild things does not fit so seamlessly with what many expected I would become—or should be. Read More...
Jennifer Wilson
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge is an oasis for bird, beast, fish—and you. Read More...
Darrell Knuffke
Connections to the land—500 years for Hispanic communities, millennia for Native Americans—are much on the mind of Deanna Archuleta, director of The Wilderness Society’s new Southwest office in Albuquerque. One of her challenges, she says, is to “change the face of conservation in the Southwest.” Read More...
Despite very challenging times, the support provided by members of The Wilderness Society, along with the capable work of our many allies, has helped produce a number of significant achievements in the past 12 months. Read More...
As a member of the U.S. women’s soccer team, Joanna Lohman has to devote significant time and psychic energy to her sport. But being part of an Olympic gold-medal soccer team in 2008 is not her only goal these days. Lohman, 25, also wants to be an effective advocate for the mission of The Wilderness Society, and more. Read More...
Teamwork. That’s how wilderness is saved. But teams need leaders, and The Wilderness Society believes in honoring those citizens who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to protect America’s wildlands and wildlife. Read More...
Read about the issues that The Wilderness Society's regional offices are working on, including offshore drilling in Alaska, protecting New Jersey's Highlands, and helping develop a conservation plan for Montana's Blackfoot River. Read More...
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