Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation
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“To be effective, conservation must be guided by a vision that is bold, scientifically credible, practically achievable, and hopeful.“ -Dave Foreman Welcome To The Rewilding Website… The essential resource for conservation vision, values…and action! A Welcome Message from Dave Foreman…
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Listen to the Show on Blog Talk Radio Saturday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. EST, Pete Klein will interview Phil Brown, editor of the monthly “Adirondack Explorer,” about his new book: “Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak Bagger, Pond-Hopper and Wilderness Preservationist,” edited by Phil Brown. Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks [...]
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The first burst of roadless areas as a national forest issue in 1971 made me a conservationist. Today, national forest roadless areas are part of the daily meat-and-potatoes for the conservationist, and it has been so for at least a generation of wilderness lovers. Only a handful of still-working conservationists remember the days before roadless [...]
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I harp on the need for conservationists to study the history of conservation because without such knowledge, we can’t learn from earlier battles. We can’t know what worked and what didn’t work. We can’t fully understand today’s anticonservationists or know how to best fight them. A key lesson from conservation history is that Nature lovers win when we fight, when we don’t [...]
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If you work long on national forest issues, you become jaded with the United States Forest Service. You soon understand that, far from being a trustworthy, well-meaning public servant, the Forest Service is an inbred bureaucracy driven to do things its way, and to insure itself a free hand. Under a cult of professionalism and as a hierarchical [...]
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