Preserving Wilderness and Watersheds With Oregon Wild
Boasting an incredible coastline, several mountain ranges, high desert, thousands of square miles of forest, one of the most iconic National Parks in the west, and the Columbia River Gorge to the north and Hell’s Canyon to the east, Oregon makes a strong case as one of the world’s great outdoor destinations. The Executive Director of Oregon Wild talks about the issues wilderness advocates face in the Beaver State, from the future of former railroad lands to the slow return of wolves.
George Wuerthner and the Humility of Wilderness
With hopes for an omnibus public lands bill during the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress, Treehuggers International presents an encore presentation of our conversation with ecologist George Wuerthner. The author of a two-volume guide to California’s Wilderness areas, George has spent an extraordinary amount of time on the trail in our nation’s National Parks, National Forests, BLM lands and Wilderness areas, and is a prolific writer with 34 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles to his credit.
Solar vs. Wilderness In Mojave Desert Protection Act
There are a zillion places in Southern California where solar farms can be developed other than areas proposed for wilderness designation, like the roof of every massive warehouse and industrial park from the Inland Empire to the Coachella Valley, or the tens of thousands of acres of desert outside of cities and recreation, conservation, and military areas.
