From the vast open spaces of Alaska to New Mexico's colorful deserts to the deep quiet forests of West Virginia, this book celebrates our amazing wild treasures and the people who have helped ensure that these places will stay as they are for our grandchildren and theirs. Readers will learn how and why The Wilderness Act was passed 45 years ago, and how people from all backgrounds and regions of the country are continuing to use this tool to protect more of the wild places they love.
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Robert Redford writes in the foreword, "What we choose to preserve defines us as a people and a society. Just as we strive always to protect the tenets of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, so too should we strive always to protect great wild places like the Great Smokies, the Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone — and we should do more to preserve other wild places such as the rain forests of southeast Alaska and the red rock canyon lands of Southern Utah."
The 64-page book is $19.95, and can be ordered from Fulcrum Publishing.
Doug Scott is Policy Director for Campaign for America’s Wilderness. One of the nation's leading historians on our country's wilderness movement, Scott has been involved in every major wilderness bill passed in the last four decades, including the recent omnibus public lands bill which added more than two million acres of wilderness to the national wilderness preservation system across nine states.
Doug's first book, The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage through the Wilderness Act (Fulcrum, 2004), is an in-depth look at how the nation's wilderness movement began, why protecting our lands has always been important, the years of bipartisan work that went into passage of The Wilderness Act, and the challenges and opportunities that lie before Americans who want to leave more of a natural legacy for future generations.
The 160-page book is $12.95, and can be ordered from Fulcrum Publishing.
The Campaign for America’s Wilderness is a national conservation group that works with state partners to advance wilderness protection on public land across the country. For more information about protecting wilderness visit the Campaign’s website at www.LeaveItWild.org.
