Episode 69: Keeping The Promise Of Wilderness With The Wilderness Land Trust
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Aimee Rutledge, Vice President and Senior Lands Specialist, Wilderness Land Trust
About
Aimee joined the Trust in 2009 as the California Program Manager. Her experience includes serving as executive director of the Sacramento Valley Conservancy. Previously, she was a founder of Friends of the Sacramento River Greenway. She worked with the American Institute of Architects as Director of Governmental Relations, and served as legislative advocate for the California Bicycle Coalition. She holds a BA from Pomona College. Aimee is based in South Lake Tahoe, California.
Topics
- Putting wilderness back together
- What happens when we love a place too much and how to fix
- Abacho Canyon project
- Mt Shasta Trail association and sisquiyou land trust
- Restoring inholdings to wilderness quality
- Flying cabins
- Trail route restoration
Extra Credit
Visit & Support The Wilderness Land Trust
Read: “Conserving Canyon Country” about New Mexico’s Organ Mountains Wilderness
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.