The art of storytelling has an ancient history and has played an important role in transferring vital information from one generation to the next. A large part of our job at the Campaign for America’s Wilderness is to spread and celebrate the message that wilderness is a precious resource that needs protection for future generations. We do this through our website, through this monthly newsletter, through periodic reports like Wild... For How Long? Ten Treasures in Trouble, and through our advertising efforts such as the Wilderness is Our Common Ground campaign, which is featured on our webpage.
Our most recent addition to the storytelling toolbox is a new book, Our Wilderness: America’s Common Ground, written by Doug Scott, the Campaign’s Policy Director. Doug tells the story of America’s wilderness through inviting photographs and narrative that describes the history of the Wilderness Act, and spotlights some of the people across the country who have worked to permanently protect their special places. In the foreword, Robert Redford writes, “Inspired by this book…we can get to work on ensuring that more of these last great places on Earth remain wild and pure and free."
Doug is one of the nation’s foremost historians of the Wilderness movement and the Act. He tirelessly travels to speak to large and small groups across the country. If you ever have the chance to spend an evening with Doug at one of these events, you will treasure it for a long time to come. (We alert e-newsletter readers to his local appearances). To learn more about the book, visit www.ourwilderness.org. It will likely make you want to get out and explore and help protect America’s special wild places.
Have a good summer.
John Gilroy
Associate Director
Campaign for America's Wilderness
