TWS Annual Report 2011 by Brenda Kane

2011 Annual Report

The Wilderness Society is the leading conservation organization working to protect America’s wilderness and preserve our country’s rich wildlands legacy. Since 1935, we’ve successfully protected more than 110 million acres of federally designated wilderness areas and have helped ensure that millions of acres of other public lands are wellmanaged into the future.

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John Scurlock Concrete, Washington

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I’ve always found that being in the wild, it just refills my tanks. I feel refueled and re-inspired. And I think there are so many pockets of wonder, little areas where you can hike and find a waterfall and see wild animals— and they are there for us all to enjoy. Everyone should have that experience. Wendie Malick Los Angeles, California © Jeff L. Fox

Fundamental to our success is the active engagement and involvement of people like you—the spirited community of committed conservationists who want future generations of Americans to inherit a country of intact wildlands to explore and enjoy.

Forrest Shearer Salt Lake City, Utah

Inspiring the next generation of

We focus on protecting the wildest parts of the U.S. public lands base, the 635 million acres of national parks, national forests and other federal lands collectively owned by the American people. Backed by more than 500,000 Wilderness Society members and supporters, we work with Congress, government, non-governmental agencies, private individuals and communities to forge workable solutions for responsible public lands stewardship.

In snowboarding and the action sports industry, we’re out there in the mountains, hiking to these far off wilderness areas, and we’re seeing firsthand the effects of climate change. So we hope to engage these kids and take it deeper to where they can grasp it and can make it theirs.

I found myself camped near Windy Pass, in the Pasayten Wilderness of the North Cascades, beneath dark larch trees last year, staring up at brilliant stars wandering through the branches. I thought, if everyone could experience this just once in their lifetime, the world would be so much a better place.

I have asked myself what experiences and pleasures I want for my 11-year-old grandsons, and what values I hope they will develop. Backpacking in the eastern Sierras, finding their grandfather’s favorite fishing spot, cooking over an outdoor fire, experiencing the stillness of Earth and sky, yes—but also membership in The Wilderness Society, to reinforce their budding conservation ethic.

When I’m out on the land, I am reminded always of what my ancestors endured so that I could be here today appreciating all the beauty this life has to offer. When I speak up on why I am for protecting the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, I do so for my son and future generations. Princess Lucaj Fairbanks, Alaska

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

Tenacity—that is what strikes us most in reviewing our achievements from this past year. We dig in and do not let go. The Wilderness Society spent more than a decade working to defend the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, William H. Meadows Doug Walker the 2001 law preventing President Chair road building and timber harvesting in large blocks of roadless national forest, and to prevent oil and gas development in Colorado’s Vermillion Basin. More than 10 years of staff time, ingenuity and resources were devoted to each issue. Our resolve and dedication outlasted presidential administrations and tectonic shifts in Congress. Safeguarding America’s public wildlands is a perennial endeavor. Protection victories can take years, and rarely can we attach the word “permanent” to any victory. Every year and every election trigger fresh challenges by those who would give away the lands held in trust for the American people for the benefit of a very few. Despite the victories noted in these pages, the roadless reaches of our national forests remain under siege from a bill in the House of Representatives that former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt has called “the most radical, over-reaching attempt to dismantle the architecture of our public land laws proposed in my lifetime.” And it is only a matter of time before the Vermillion Basin is once again targeted by oil and gas interests. But the protection of our public lands reflects the unique American democracy on which they were founded. It is of the people, by the people and for the people. If we and our fellow citizens band together to demand that our national parks, forests, monuments and wildlife refuges be protected, they will be.

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Signs abound that the majority of Americans want to see their wilderness heritage protected. For instance, a bipartisan poll released in January 2012—the Conservation in the West Poll, sponsored by Colorado College— found broad consensus among voters in six western states that public lands should not be developed by private interests at the expense of public access and enjoyment.

The Wilderness Society speaks for wilderness,

We have always known that the best means of defending wildlands is through public policy built on a foundation of strong citizen involvement, and that has been Bill’s approach for the past 16 years as president. So, we are delighted that our Governing Council has chosen a conservation leader with deep roots in community-supported conservation to succeed Bill.

and for the people, communities, wild animals

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Jamie Williams, after nearly 20 years at The Nature Conservancy, takes over the helm of The Wilderness Society in May 2012. Jamie is deeply committed to the collaboration required to protect our public wildlands. Montana rancher Jim Stone sums it up well: “Jamie has been a huge help to our community’s efforts to conserve the Blackfoot Valley because he took the time to listen and work with us on a common vision for landscape conservation.” We expect no less of him as he leads The Wilderness Society into the future. The Wilderness Society’s collaborative work is deeply American and so very democratic. The members of Congress who would give away America’s great outdoors have overlooked this and miscalculated the depth of public support—of your support—for the wildlands we hold dear. And with your continued dedication, The Wilderness Society will remain a tenacious defender of our wildlands every step of the way. Bill Meadows I President

Doug Walker I Chair, Governing Council

and plants that depend on wilderness for survival.

Left: © A. Vedder, Right: © Ashley Siple

Wildlands Conservation: Our Democracy in Action

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The Long and Winding Road to Roadless Forest Protection After more than a decade of contentious legal challenges to the federal Roadless Rule, approved by President Clinton in 2001 to protect large blocks of roadless forests, 49 million acres have finally received lasting protection. In October 2011, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that no road building or timber harvesting could take place within these national forest lands, which will remain wild and open to hiking, mountain biking, hunting and other world-class recreation. Throughout the arduous process of creating and defending the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, The Wilderness Society tenaciously led the way, galvanizing partners and public support. Earthjustice, the nonprofit environmental law firm, ably represented us and other groups in the courtroom. The long-haul fight resulted in the protection of many wild places, among them:

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Pamela A. Miller, Northern Alaska Environmental Center

San Juan National Forest, Colorado

• 140,000 roadless acres in Montana’s Whitefish Range, encompassing the headwaters of the North Fork of the Flathead River, home to native cutthroat trout and a recovering population of grizzly bears. • 178,000 roadless acres in the Southern Blue Ridge, including 13,791 acres of a primitive area in the Nantahala National Forest, in North Carolina. • 74,000 roadless acres known as the Teanaway Roadless Area, in Washington state’s North Cascades.

The Roadless Rule is one of the most significant conservation actions ever taken by the federal government, along with the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1980 Alaska Lands Act. The Clinton administration enacted the rule in January 2001 after a multiyear public comment process, barring road building and logging on approximately 30 percent of the National Forest System.

When Mike was growing up in Saginaw, Michigan—“the timber capital of the world” in the 1870s—he had no idea that he would end up helping save millions of acres of forest later in life. Since Mike joined the staff of The Wilderness Society 27 years ago, his legal expertise and collaborative skills have been used to improve the management of the 193 million-acre National Forest System. Mike has fought to protect the Pacific Northwest’s ancient forests and has formed new partnerships to restore degraded watersheds. As our Senior Resource Analyst, his legal guidance was critical during the development and subsequent defense of the Roadless Rule. A former captain of the Yale tennis team, Mike continues to compete in tournaments, and he hikes and backpacks in the wilderness areas that he helped protect.

In my opinion, the ban on building roads in the roadless regions of our precious national forests is the first step in protecting these sacred placesThe for ourselves and for future generations to come. Wilderness Society has provided a half century of leadership Bob Plott, author, A History of Hunting in the Great Smoky Mountains in protecting the Arctic Refuge.

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The Roadless Rule became the law of the land in 2011, protecting 49 million acres of roadless national forest.

Mike anderson Seattle

But from the day of its signing, the Roadless Rule was plagued by controversy and politics, including legal attacks from the Bush administration, state governments and special interests. Despite the recent court decision protecting 49 million acres, 9 million acres of originally proposed roadless forest remain excluded in Idaho, where less-stringent regulations apply. Alaska has filed another legal challenge to the rule, and Congress is currently considering legislation that would eliminate the Roadless Rule altogether. Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

Thus, we cannot rest on the laurels of this victory. The Wilderness Society must remain vigilant and will continue to press for the protection of roadless national forests, an American legacy for this and future generations to enjoy. Annual Report 2011 I 5

Ryan Bidwell Durango, Colorado

Before joining The Wilderness Society in early 2011, Ryan was the executive director of Colorado Wild, a grassroots forest conservation organization and Wilderness Society partner. Building on his conservation work in Oregon, West Virginia, Washington and Colorado, as well as his master’s degree in forest policy from the University of Washington, Ryan brings a collaborative, grassroots style well-suited to our national monuments efforts.

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The designation of the Grand Staircase−Escalante National Monument [in 1996] didn’t just help the economy. It is the economy. My business increased by 25 percent this year, and we’ve seen similar increases since the designation. Each year, more and more people come because of the monument and the surrounding protected lands.

When President Obama signed a proclamation in November 2011 declaring Fort Monroe a national monument, he joined the ranks of 15 other presidents who have used the Antiquities Act to designate dozens of national monuments over the past century. The Antiquities Act of 1906 was authored by President Teddy Roosevelt to give the president of the United States the authority to protect places of special natural, historical and cultural significance. The Wilderness Society, whose National Monuments Campaign works to defend the Antiquities Act and encourage national monument designation, applauds President Obama’s decision to exercise this important bipartisan conservation tool. As one of our country’s bedrock land-protection statutes, the Antiquities Act has been The Antiquities Act allows used by Republican and Democratic presidents alike to protect the president to respond to such iconic American places as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty and Devil’s Tower. For the American people, these citizen requests to protect important pieces of our natural and cultural heritage are saved for America’s special places, all of us to experience and enjoy. For neighboring communities, national monument designation has proven to be a strong such as Fort Ord (right). economic driver. Surrounded by Chesapeake Bay marshes in Hampton, Virginia, Fort Monroe was where in-bound slaves first set foot in the New World in the 17th century. Later, while in use as a Union fort in the Civil War, enslaved freedom-seekers found refuge here. President Obama’s action on Fort Monroe came about after local citizens asked for its protection. His readiness to listen to the American people and protect the values and traditions that are represented in such places stands in stark contrast to the 112th Congress’s unwillingness to pass conservation legislation.

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Steve Roberts, owner, Escalante Outfitters, Escalante, Utah

Throughout 2011, some members of Congress attempted to attach “riders,” or additions, onto bills that would compromise the president’s authority to use the Antiquities Act. Although The Wilderness Society and our allies successfully beat back these threats, some members of Congress have since introduced eight bills that would severely limit the president’s power to use the Antiquities Act.

Great blue heron, Fort Monroe National Monument, Virginia

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Through our National Monuments Campaign, we will continue to fight hard to defend the Antiquities Act and the president’s ability to use it. Already, 2012 has shown progress. In April, President Obama responded to local citizens’ and veterans’ calls for action and designated Fort Ord, in Monterey County, California, as a national monument. Grassroots efforts to designate national monuments also are springing up in Washington, Colorado and New Mexico.

“Conservation boils down to getting supposed ‘adversaries’ to sit down and talk about the future.” That’s how Ryan, a forester by training, describes his work. Today, Ryan leads The Wilderness Society’s National Monuments Campaign, working with local partners around the country to defend the Antiquities Act and advocate for the protection of landscapes of outstanding historic, cultural and natural value.

Protecting the President’s Power to Protect

Fort Ord National Monument, California

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With Planning, the Future of Solar Energy Is Looking Bright With their big-sky open spaces and sun-drenched vistas, many of our public lands, especially those in the West, have tremendous solar-energy potential. But if we are to protect critical wildlife habitat, water resources and pristine wilderness, we must limit development on sensitive lands. Identifying suitable development zones is essential to creating a solid U.S. solar plan—and a top priority for The Wilderness Society.

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Our renewable energy team has worked closely with the environmental and conservation community, the solar energy industry, local partners and government agencies to develop and implement a framework that will identify low-conflict zones to advance solar energy projects. After Interior Secretary Ken Salazar directed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create a national program to decide where solar energy projects should be located on BLM lands, Because the United the agency released a plan in fall 2011 based largely on The Wilderness States needs solar Society’s work. In particular, our 2011 report, “Smart Solar: Focusing on energy, we’re working to Low-Conflict Zones to Promote the West’s Economy, Protect Wildlands and Build a Clean Energy Future,” influenced the BLM’s program.

locate projects in the best places on public lands.

“It is exciting to see a strong commitment from the BLM to guiding solar development to low-conflict zones as their solar plan has evolved,” says Alex Daue, Renewable Energy Associate at The Wilderness Society. “As we gain knowledge and experience with solar projects on the ground, it is clear that such an approach is critical to both protecting wildlands and facilitating clean energy development.”

The Wilderness Society has been a great ally in our local efforts to support putting solar in the right spots on public lands. We really appreciate that they take the time to understand the people and places in our backyard, and are a strong voice for protecting wild landscapes and building solar responsibly.

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Olive Valdez, former Colorado Wildlife Commissioner. Olive and her husband, Demetrio, support the proposed BLM Antonito Southeast Solar Energy Zone, which sits less than a mile away from their organic ranch in southern Colorado.

Last year, the BLM approved a number of solar development projects on public lands, including Arizona’s first project, Sonoran Solar. Through Wilderness Society engagement, Sonoran Solar will have fewer impacts on the land, water and wildlife while generating clean, renewable energy. We recommended a shift to lowwater-use photovoltaic technology and the avoidance of important desert washes, the intermittent streams that are vital to life in a desert ecosystem. And 2012 is shaping up to be another big year for renewable energy, as President Obama and members of Congress are calling for more renewable energy from public lands. The Wilderness Society will be there every step of the way to ensure that we guide development to appropriate areas and provide clear guidance for investors, developers and conservationists alike.

Taos, New Mexico

liese dart Washington, D.C.

As The Wilderness Society’s Wildlife and Clean Energy Policy Advisor, Liese works with the Department of Interior and other federal agencies to ensure that renewable energy projects are built in appropriate areas. “Finding places that avoid sensitive landscapes is hard work,” she says. “But it’s one of the most important things we can do to protect our wild places from climate change.” Liese joined the staff in early 2011 after finishing a master’s degree in environmental studies, with a focus on energy policy, from the University of Wisconsin. “Our work on renewable energy spans the chasm between protecting iconic American landscapes and making our economy sustainable,” she says. “Few other organizations are poised to dig down and find real solutions to these complex issues.”

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Together with You, We Are Brilliant at Wilderness Emily Diamond-Falk Washington, D.C.

As an animal lover from an early age, Emily had always wanted to help protect animals and their habitat. Two years ago, Emily got her wish when she joined The Wilderness Society as the wildlands designation advocacy communicator. “Emily is a gift to our Columbine Hondo Wilderness Campaign,” says Roberta Salazar, executive director of Rivers & Birds, a Wilderness Society partner in New Mexico. “Her compassion for the Earth and her sensitivity to people’s needs comes through her voice and expression, a talent which is essential to this kind of environmental community work.” Born in Evanston, Illinois, Emily grew up camping, hiking, rafting, biking and skiing with her family. She has a B.A. from Indiana University and a master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

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“My happiest memories as a kid were packing into the beautiful high Sierras in California,” says actress Betty White, recalling the many summer trips she took with her parents into the rugged Sierra Nevada, where they would camp for three weeks at a stretch at Rae Lakes. Her memories of these mountain vacations reach back to the 1920s. “The first trip in I was like four years old, and I would ride on the front of my dad’s horse. It was as close to heaven as you can get on this Earth.” Many years later, Rae Lakes was protected as part of the Sequoia−King’s Canyon Wilderness Area through the Wilderness Act of 1964, landmark legislation championed by The Wilderness Society. “Letting that kind of country remain unchanged, unchallenged—thank you for that,” says Betty, a 30-year Wilderness Society member. Betty’s story, while unique, is yet one among countless stories of deep connections forged between people and wilderness through firsthand experience. All of us who love nature and wildlands have had them—the indelible memory of the first time we were awed by wilderness. Whether it was a national park or national forest, chances are good that it was protected through the Wilderness Act or with the involvement of The Wilderness Society, our founders, members and partners. The core of our mission is protecting your wilderness, forever. And while the day-to-day work of the organization is performed by our dedicated staff, The Wilderness Society is a society comprised of all of us—500,000 members, supporters, donors and leaders like you—working together with local communities to protect America’s wildlands.

Protecting wilderness is part of our DNA—central to who we are, what we do and how we do it.

This past year, The Wilderness Society continued to influence wilderness protections around the country. The Maine Coastal Islands Wilderness Act of 2011 was introduced in Congress to protect 13 islands in the Maine Coastal Islands Wildlife Refuge as wilderness. The San Juan Wilderness bill was re-introduced in Congress to protect 33,000 acres of wilderness in Colorado, and the Beauty Mountain and Agua Tibia Act of 2011 was introduced in Congress to add wilderness acreages in California. Behind these and many other efforts stands The Wilderness Society, providing support and resources to help local communities craft conservation solutions that work for them. Yes, together, we are brilliant at wilderness.

Background photo: © Alexander Johnson, Right: © Dennis Welsh

Wilderness defender Betty White

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Now, as an old lady, if I can’t sleep at night, I go back and relive those times. I can smell that air, hear the wind in the pines. It’s where my soul lives. . . . I’m so grateful to The Wilderness Society for letting us know that that place will be there for us.

Halifax Island, Maine

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Nobody is saying that oil and gas development should not happen in northwest Colorado. We only want it if it is kept out of our most sensitive landscapes such as Vermillion Basin. This [new] plan recognizes that we must balance energy development with the things that make this area such a great place to live.

A few short years ago, it looked like Vermillion Basin would be littered with oil and gas rigs. In October 2011, however, after a decade of dedicated effort by The Wilderness Society, this little-known vestige of the wild American West was protected when the Bureau of Land Management approved the final resource management plan for the Little Snake Resource Area, in far northwestern Colorado. It was a huge victory for The Wilderness Society and our partners—the triumph of sensible planning, in the interest of the public good, over short-term gain and special interests.

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Wes McStay, a rancher in the Great Divide area north of Craig, Colorado

In 2011, the BLM approved its long-contested resource management plan for the Little Snake Resource Area, sparing Vermillion Basin (left) from oil and gas development.

For 15 years, the fate of these wildlands had hung in the balance. A vast, sparsely populated, rugged country of multihued badlands and remote canyons, just outside of Dinosaur National Monument, Vermillion Basin is surrounded by large herds of elk and mule deer and the greatest concentration of imperiled greater sage-grouse in Colorado. In the late 1990s, a citizens’ wilderness inventory, in which The Wilderness Society participated, recommended wilderness designations. The BLM agreed, and protection plans were put in motion.

Then in 2000, with the election of George W. Bush, the climate across the western United States changed overnight. For the next eight years, the Bush administration aggressively pursued plans to open up public lands to oil and gas development, including Vermillion Basin. Thus began our long journey of convincing the BLM to reshape its final resource management plan toward a balance between protections for wilderness and key wildlife habitats and responsible energy development.

For the past decade, working hand-in-hand with partners and local citizens—from county commissioners to ranchers to recreation enthusiasts—we participated in more than three dozen public meetings and mobilized Wilderness Society members to comment on the plan’s development. Our science and policy analyses were instrumental in bringing common sense to the plans, as we gauged that the basin contained only enough technically recoverable natural gas to supply U.S. energy needs for about 10 days, and its oil demand for less than 20 minutes.

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The final resource management plan balances energy development with myriad other uses. While oil and gas drilling can still take place in appropriate areas within the larger Little Snake Resource Area, thanks to our perseverance and expertise, nearly 165,000 acres of wilderness-quality lands are now being protected, including the iconic Vermillion Basin.

Greater sage-grouse © Kristen Jespersen

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A Re-balancing Act in the Colorado Wilds

Vermillion Basin, Colorado

Soren JESPERSEN Craig, Colorado

While backpacking on the Colorado Plateau as a boy, Soren, who grew up in Salt Lake City, fell in love with wild places. That love would later lead him to earn a master’s degree in international environmental policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and in 2009, to The Wilderness Society. Now as our Northwest Colorado Wildlands Coordinator, Soren leads efforts to protect Colorado’s Vermillion Basin and other wildlands. “I think it is clear that we all live up here in this forgotten corner of the world for the same reason: we love the land and the communities and we want to see them thrive,” he says, referring to the diverse partners with whom he works. Soren’s free time is still spent backpacking, rafting, fly-fishing and otherwise exploring the wilds around him.

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Fabiola’s love of nature grew as she hiked in the San Gabriel Mountains while attending graduate school in public administration at the University of Southern California. “It was relaxing and humbling because I realized that I was part of something bigger,” she says. Joining The Wilderness Society’s staff as a Public Lands Fellow gave her the opportunity to acquire training through our Wilderness Support Center, which develops future campaign leaders. A native of Peru who moved to Southern California as a child, Fabiola’s Spanish is put to good use in her work. “I’ve been able to do outreach work in my hometown of La Crescenta, in the foothills of the San Gabriels,” she says. “It’s been so great reconnecting with the folks there.”

As the American citizenry ages and comes to include more people of color, the American conservation movement must change, too. For one, we will need dedicated young people to take up the mantle of 20th-century conservationists and defend American wilderness and public lands as the U.S. population climbs toward 400 million in the next few decades. But also, with more than 80 percent of Americans living in cities or suburbs, it’s vital to engage a younger, more urban and more diverse constituency—now and for the long term. The Wilderness Society is fostering the involvement of this next generation of conservationists in our work to protect wildlands. Our guiding philosophy: people will protect what they come to love. In the communities bordering the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, it’s not been hard to find people who love the mountains and rivers near their homes. There, in 2011, The Wilderness Society and our coalition partners created the San Gabriel Mountains Forever Leadership Academy to train and empower community organizers of all ages to lead grassroots projects that can help the coalition achieve its conservation goals. George Sanchez-Tello, who heads up the academy as part of his job with The Wilderness Society, grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. “I believe the academy’s work has the potential to bridge traditional social gaps among the valley’s communities,” he says. Graduates of the academy’s first class of 2012 are already pushing the conservation and environmental justice movements to new heights in their hometowns.

Fostering a conservation ethic among tomorrow’s leaders is a sound investment in enduring wildlands protection.

From the San Gabriel Mountains to our nation’s capital, The Wilderness Society works to inspire Americans to care for our wild places. In September 2011, we played host to Americans of all ages who traveled to Washington, D.C., for Great Outdoors America Week, a public-private effort to focus attention on public lands conservation and funding and to reconnect Americans with our rich natural heritage. Wilderness Society leaders met with urban schoolchildren who came to advocate for programs that give them and their peers opportunities to take hiking and camping trips. We also presented Environmental Leadership Awards to three Latino members of Congress in recognition of their contributions in protecting wilderness areas, endangered species and clean water. Great Outdoors America Week, Washington, D.C.

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America’s wilderness and public lands will always need defenders. Helping grow the conservation leaders of tomorrow is a sound investment in enduring wildlands protection.

Fabiola Lao Los Angeles

Growing the Conservation Leaders of Tomorrow

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The diversity of this great nation of ours, and the protection of our national parks, and the expansion of wilderness areas, and making the conservation system a real system with funding and appropriate attention—that’s going to happen as a consequence of the American people demanding that it happen. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a recipient of The Wilderness Society’s Environmental Leadership Awards

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Notable Achievements over the past year

Our successful lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service helped protect the Salmon−Challis area in Idaho from damaging off-road vehicle use, helping set an important national precedent to protect recommended wilderness areas.

Working with a wide array of partners, we have succeeded in protecting many of the nation’s valuable natural areas. As always, the support provided by members of The Wilderness Society was critically important. The success stories include:

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We led the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) coalition to successfully rebuff an attack from members of Congress who wanted to de-fund the LWCF, a federal program to conserve irreplaceable lands and improve outdoor recreation opportunities. Although the LWCF is congressionally authorized at the $900 million level, it has been chronically underfunded for years. Through the coalition’s efforts in 2011, LWCF funding increased 7 percent over the previous year.

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In September, we were instrumental in securing instream flow protections for more than 17 miles of the San Miguel River, in southwest Colorado, just above its confluence with the Dolores River. The San Miguel is the major—and largely free-flowing— tributary of the severely depleted lower Dolores.

Salmon–Challis National Forest, Idaho

A decade-long series of legal challenges and public comment on the Roadless Rule ended in victory with the decision of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the rule permanently protecting 49 million acres of roadless national forests.

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Following a lawsuit brought by The Wilderness Society and several other organizations, a federal judge ruled that ancient forests on public lands in western Oregon must be protected from logging.

We helped defeat the addition of a rider attached to the federal budget that would have prevented the president of the United States from using the Antiquities Act to protect significant natural and cultural resources.

Wilderness Society staff member Evan Hjerpe was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to serve three years on the Forestry Research Advisory Council, which advises the secretary on forestrelated issues.

Our work was instrumental in persuading a bipartisan group of legislators to introduce wilderness bills in 10 states that would protect approximately 3.5 million acres of wildlands.

Arctic fox, near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska

After more than a decade of Wilderness Society work to protect Colorado’s Vermillion Basin, the Bureau of Land Management released a final resource management plan putting it off limits to oil and gas drilling and protecting 165,000 acres of wilderness-quality lands in the basin and surrounding region.

Through our newly inaugurated Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards program, volunteers contributed more than 1,500 hours to restore 25 miles of trails in wilderness areas in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Our research convinced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to pursue the creation of a cutting-edge climate change adaptation refuge in the High Peaks region of Maine.

The Bureau of Land Management did not issue any oil and gas drilling leases in the Teshekpuk Lake area of Alaska’s Western Arctic Reserve in 2011, thanks in large part to our efforts.

The my wilderness marketing campaign, featuring wilderness lovers like pro snowboarder Forrest Shearer and photographer/writer Dudley Edmonson, helped expand our reach into diverse communities and inspired more than 80,000 online engagements. Annual Report 2011 I 17

Thank you to our supporters

Special Thanks to Our Contributors The donors listed on the following pages generously contributed $1,000 or more in fiscal year 2011. The Wilderness Society gratefully acknowledges their commitment to protecting wilderness and caring for our wild places.

Individuals $100,000 or more Anonymous (7) Currie and Tom Barron Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blum Barbara and Bertram Cohn Judith and Stewart M. Colton Barbara I. and Joseph H. Ellis Valerie Logan Hood and Leroy E. Hood Laura Debonis and Scott Nathan

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Sally and Alan Black

Ann and Doug Christensen

James K. Donnell

Gregory A. Fowler

Patsy M. Graham

Audra and Eric Adelberger

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Blaine, II

Leslie S. Christodoulopoulos

Griswold Draz

Emily and Gene Grant

Diane Parish and Paul Gelburd

B. J. Adelson

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Blanda

Loraine Pearsall and Paul Chrostowski

Loren Blackford and Michael Dubno

Carla D’Arista and George T. Frampton, Jr.

Ruth and Ben Hammett

Susan and William Ahearn

Eleanor and Peter Blitzer

Jean Aubuchon Cinader

Paul V. Dufour

Kenneth Frank

Gary, Julie, Sydney, and Maddy Greenstein

Sara Jackson Hertwig

Cary Ridder and David Alberswerth

Carolyn O. Bluhm

Susan Clark

Janet Duke

Jay Hiatt

Jodie and George Allen

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Blurton

Julie A. Clayman

Ann and William Duncan

Jeanie and Murray Kilgour

Suzanne and Terry Allen

Kathryn Boehnke

Judith and Steven Clifford

Paul L. Dunklee

Ann R. and Michael A. Loeb

Jane Sokolow and Edward A. Ames

Carolyn and John K. Boitnott

Jeff Clough

Ryan Dunn

Jacqueline Badger Mars

Karen and Tucker Andersen

Eleanor F. Bookwalter

Murray Cohen

Sylvia Duryee

Sally and Bill Meadows

Marjorie and James L. Andrews

Beatrice and Bill Booth

Trudi Cohen

Joanne Waldron Dwyer

Sarah Merner and Craig McKibben

Margaret Andrews

Ann Bowker

Lynn Brinton and Daniel E. Cohn

Polly Dyer

Janice Miller

Stephen B. Andrus

Louise S. Bowman

Jane S. Comer

Margo and George Earley

Heidi Nitze

George Appell

Elsa and William Boyce

RoseAnn B. Comstock

Patty and Len Eaton

Amy and Dan Nordstrom

Irwyn Applebaum

Karen J. Boyd

Anne and Bill Conn

Elizabeth Farrar and Craig Echols

Helen Posey

Holly and Bernie Arghiere

Daniel G. Bradley

Diane Connal Koeppel

Gary Edwards

Diana and Bruce Rauner

Mary Jo and Fred Armbrust

John A. Bradley

Forrest C. Conrath

Charles Ellman

Amy and Jay Regan

Marshall Hackett Whiting and Richard Arnold

Peter P. Bradley

George M. Covington

Margot and Chris Enbom

Shannon J. Brandon

Phoebe Cowles

Donna Esteves

Liza F. Brickley

Timothy H. Crawford, III

Anne H. Evans

Barbara and Peter Brinkley

Merry and Terrence Croft

Roberta and Quentin C. Eyberg

Carolyn Summers and David Brittenham

Janet Mitchell and Jerry Cromwell

Josephine G. Farwell

Michelle Britton Mehlisch

Lynn Cross

Wayne L. Feakes

Dr. Olive J. Brose

Vivien Blackford and William H. Cuddy

Cynthia S. and Robert L. Feldman

Olive M. Bryan

Mary Culp

Susan D. Fencl

Magalen O. Bryant

George W. Cunningham

Bill Fenn

Dinah Buechner-Vischer

David. G. Cunnings

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon H. Ferguson

Mildred and Jerome Bullock

Jesse Czekanski-Moir

Barbara J. Fey

Mary Catherine Bunting

Ann and Robert Dahl

James T. Field

Cynthia and Charles Burgess

Becca and Harry M. Dalton

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Field

Patricia Burian

Bruce T. Dalzell

Arthur L. Finn

Donald Burkholder

Severyn S. Dana

Joanne and Peter Fischer

Elvira and Terry Burns

Gene L. Daniels

Ruth and Allen Fisher

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caiola

Susan and William Darnell

Anita Fisher

Loulie and William Canady

Shirley B. Dawson

Dr. Mitra Fiuzat

Judith L. Carlson

Sherry Ann and Edward Dayton

Portia N. Flewellen

Rebecca Rom and Reid Carron

John W. Dayton

Susan and Robert B. Flint, Jr.

Theresa and John Cederholm

Kenneth D. Deaton

Sonia Florian

Lois K. Chaffey

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dettinger

Agnes Hughes and Gunther Fonken

Ashford R. Chancelor

Stephanie and Russell Deyo

John A. Fonstad

Henry T. Chandler

Joan Diggs

Margot and Ben Fooshee

Eugene J. Chesrow

Mary Ruth Dobbins

Nathan Foster

Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Rice Kathryn Riddell Mary and Gaylan Rockswold Connie and Ted Roosevelt, IV

Alice and Fred Stanback, Jr.

Gaile B. Russ

Maggie and Doug Walker

Ellen Marshall Scholle Lois and Arthur Stainman

has been called “an organization of spirited people.” Today

$10,000 to $99,999

our members continue to exhibit that spirit of support.

Anonymous (8)

More than 500,000 citizens, committed to preserving the

Gail Austin

financially and through their actions: making calls, attending

Charles P. Ade, M.D.

Jaimie and David Field

Marge and Gilman Ordway

Founded more than 75 years ago, The Wilderness Society

finest lands left in America, support The Wilderness Society

Jo Ann Eder

Marcia Kunstel and Joseph Albright Dr. and Mrs. Reinier Beeuwkes, III Amy and Philip Blumenthal

Shelli and Brad Stanback Dianne B. and David J. Stern Joanna Sturm J. H. Taylor Edward B. Whitney Kendrick R. Wilson, III Eleanor and Frederick Winston

Virginia Arter Russell Atha, III Anne and Greg Avis Robert D. Bacon Yvonne and Dan Bailey Tim Bain Albert J. Balducchi Thomas Barrow Marcia and David Barstow Kathryn and Harold Bean Kathleen A. Becker Elizabeth and Dale Behrens Nancy and Peter B. Benedict

Marsha McMahan Zelus

Dalice Benge

Marilyn and Allan Brown

$1,000 to $9,999

Helen Bentley

Mrs. Sara S. Brown

Anonymous (45)

Jan Campbell and James Berneking

We thank each and every one of these spirited people for

The Reverend and Mrs. C. F. Buechner

Catherine Abbott

Pamela Oxenberg and Martin Bernstein

their dedication to our mission of creating a wilderness

Alan Abelson

Fred Berry

Sara T. Campbell

Jason Abrahamsen

Marion and John C. Bierwirth

Doug A. Adams

Mrs. Lucius H. Biglow, Jr.

Jim Adams

Linda L. Billups

Marcy Adams

Mrs. George P. Bissell, Jr.

hearings and sending letters and e-mail messages.

legacy for future generations.

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Crandall and Erskine Bowles Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden

Heidi and Bill Bumpers Lisa C. Caplan Barbara J. and David A. Churchill Brenda and Swep Davis

Walter R. Benoit

Glynna and Lee Freeman Bart Friedman Linda and Dennis Fromholzer

Julia L. Grant Lumina Greenway Rusty Gregory

Helga Fuller

Christine L. Dickey and Stephen L. Griffith

Cornelia Funke

Scott Grimm

Robert Gable

Nina B. Griswold

Laurie A. Gabriel

Amy Slater and Garrett Gruener

Beverly Galban

Nancy E. Newton and David Grusin

Lynne and William Garbose

Elizabeth S. Guenzel

Kathleen Garfield

Peter Guggenheimer

Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Garnsey, Jr.

Barbara and Clayton Haberman

John A. Garraty

Kevin J. Hable

Charles Garrett

Dr. Maureen Hackett

Arthur Gaume

Frederick D. Haffner, M.D.

Patricia Geiger

R. Flip Hagood

Liliane V. Gersh

Julie and Parker Hall

Ann and David Getches

Margaret Halvorson

Diana R. Gillanders

Dr. Elise Z. Harnois

Frances Ginsberg

Ruth and Franklin Harold

Kenneth H. Glasgow

Jessie M. Harris

Janey and Ed Gleaves

Alexandra M. Harrison

Nancy and Christopher Gloe

Joanne and Graham Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. William Goadby

J. Barton Harrison

Billie and Martin Gold

Ann Harvey

Sunny and Bradley Goldberg

John H. Harvey, Ph.D.

David A. Golden

Colleen Hazel

Mitchell Golden

Jean and John Heins

Phil Goldstein

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henigson

Lisa and Chris Goode

Kim R. Henry

Beverly H. Goodman

Jane M. Herman

Dr. Charles B. Goodman

Keiko H. and Claude M. Hess

William S. Goodman

Roger Hess

Susan and Peter Goodwin

Hermi and John Hiatt

Katherine L. Goolsby

Marilyn W. Hickey

Nancy A. Goolsby

Jessie Hill

Mary and Gary Gordon

Lee and Jim Hilton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grabske

Dianne and David Hoaglin

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Joanne and Dennis Keith

Daniel G. Lentz

Patricia W. McCoy

William A. Newsom

Susan Ott and David Ralph

Mr. and Mrs. R. Hoguet, III

Ken Keller

A. Lesk

John McCune

Bette Nichols

Sara Ransford

Jan and Maurice Holloway

Suzanne and Brooks Kelley

Liz and Nels Leutwiler

Mr. and Mrs. William J. McCune, Jr.

Leonard Nicholson

Carolyn and Will Ratliff

Patricia A. Holmes

Mary Kelly

Mary L. Lewis

Carter McFarland

Dr. Margery Nicolson

Eileen and Charles Read

Virginia Holmes

Marilyn Wiles-Kettenmann and

Billy Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. McGrady

Elsa and John Nimmo

Mr. and Mrs. William Redeker

Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman

John Light

Cynthia and David McGrath

Gail and David Nochimson

William W. Reed

Thomas A. Hopkins

E. J. Key

Thomas Ligon

Helen McLaren

Janet Nye

Monique M. Regard

Jocelyn and Garrett Horder

Jane and Robert Kibler

Perrin and David Lilly

Helen Meadors

Anne Oakes

Margo L. Reid

Nancy F. Houghton

Deneen and Ken Kickbusch

Patricia Lintala

M.F. Meadors, Jr.

Judy and Bradford O’Brien

Mary E. Reinthal

Marie Huet

Elizabeth W. King

Amy Liss

Dorothy Mears Ward

Nancy Oliver

Virginia Poole and John Rentzepis

Gretchen Hull

Graydon Kingsland

Malia and David Litman

Cynthia Kring and Richard Melsheimer

Jean Oppenheimer

Phyllis Reynolds

Shirley Hunt

Harold Kirker

Ingeborg Lock

Mrs. Albert Merck

Christine and Edwin Ordway

Ann Richards

Ann and Tom Hunt

Lisa and Derek Kirkland

Lael M. Locke

Alice and Robert Mertz

Linda and Edward Ornitz

Heidi Richardson

John R. Hunting

Margot Kittredge

Betty White Ludden

Carol Michaels

Martha and Robert Osborne

Randolph Richardson

Barb and Dave Hurd

Peter Kjellerup

Marie and Gary Ludi

Sindy Micho

L. L. Oster

Anne Powell Riley

Dan Hurley

Paul C. Klahr

Hampton and Kevin Luzak

Lindsay Mickles

Marylou L. Pardue

Bonnie Riley

Debra and Jeff Huser

James T. Knowles

Cyrus H. Lyle, Jr.

Catherine Milbourn

Diane Williams Parker

Alice M. Rivlin

Lisa Beaudreau and Matthew Hyde

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Knox

Joanne Lyman

Walter E. D. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Parsegian

Timothy A. Robert

Jody L. Sindelar and Roger G. Ibbotson

Glade Koch

Diana Lynch

A. K. Lienhart-Minnick and Walt Minnick

Anne Pattee

Sandra A. Adams and Tom D. Roberts

Patricia Issarescu

Julie and Bart Koehler

Rose M. Lyon

Bernie M. Minsk

David Pedersen

Wendy Robins

Bill James

Dr. Laurence N. Kolonel

Lydia Sargent Macauley

Dwight Minton

William L. Peebles

Larry Rockefeller

Carol and Keith James

Kay Koplovitz

Lynn Maclean

Margaret and Edmond Missiaen

Alan Penczek

David Rodd

Ruth A. Jensen

Mary Ellen and George Korbelik

Mary A. Mahoney

Sandra and John Mitchel

Phyllis Penrod

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Rodgers

Robert Jesperson

Margaret K. and James Ellsworth

Wendie Malick

Laura A. Mitchell

J. H. Peters

Joyce and Waldron Rogers

Carol A. Jewell

Charles Krout

Laure Manheimer

Joseph Mnuk

Karen C. Petrilla

Holly and William Rom

Wanda John

Susan and Robert Kuehlthau

Susanne and John Manley

John H. Moe

Beverly Phillips

Eugene Rondeau

Beth Johnson

Deborah and Peter Lamm

Noel Mann

Claire W. Mooers

E. A. Phillips

Anne Rorimer

Dale L. Johnson

Sue and Roger Lang

Michael Mantell

Lois S. Moore

Meline and Allan Pickus

Carl Rosenberg

Dwight L. Johnson

Esther and Kenneth Lange

Chris P. Marcella

Ann Morgan

Mr. and Mrs. John Pierce

Catherine and Paul Rosenberger

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas and Robert A. Jonas

Murray Lapides

Ilamae Clifford and Rick Maron

Sandro Moro

Cynthia and Richard Plank

Myron R. Rosenthal

Mrs. Henry A. Jordan

Roy Lapidus

Forrest E. Mars, Jr.

William Morrill

Nancy Plaxico

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rotberg

Roger K. Larson

Doretta and Robert Marwin

CeLena Morris

Sidney Posel

Marcia S. Osbourne and David M. Rothstein

Donnie Lateiner

Pamela Massey

Phyllis Mueller

James R. Potter

Callae and Ed Rounds

Jennifer and Charles Laue

Barbara and John Matsinger

Mary and William Murdy

Susan and Michael Powell

Elizabeth Ruffin

David R. Lawrence

M. A. Maw

Beth Murphy

Philip Preston

Erma M. Rummel

Marta J. Lawrence

Teresa Mawhinney

Abby R. Simpson and Todd Mydland

Markita Price

Jim A. Rupke

Leslie and Michael Lebeau

Philip R. Mayhew

Rita V. Myers

James E. Pryor

Anne and William Russell

Bethany LeBlanc

Francis McAdoo

Kelsey Wirth and Samuel S. Myers

Alice J. Purcell

Ann Rembert and Daniel Safranek

Eleanor McBride and Timothy Lee

Laurie and John McBride

Dr. Thomas Naegeli

Mary D. Raae

Robert Salter

Barbara and Thomas Leggat

Jane McCammon

Dr. and Mrs. William Naftel

Marjorie B. Rachlin

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Saltonstall

Dee and Robert Leggett

Betty and Conn McConnell

Lois M. Naylor

David Rakov

Annette Malinsky and Victor Sandler

Judy M. Judd Melvin S. Judnich Carol and Frederick Jules Suzanne Bober and Stephen Kahn Dale S. Kammerlohr Janey and Kevin Kaster Melissa Elstein and Eric Katzman John M. Kauffmann Nancy F. Kearney

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David Churchill: Rallying the President’s Council to Build Support and Carry Momentum “No wonder the Council’s flourished,” says David, recalling the inspiration he took away from that first gathering. “We knew we were united in helping Bill and becoming educated on the wildland issues that The Wilderness Society is leading.”

Rick Hoffer

Today, the President’s Council meets twice a year for one regional and one lobbying meeting. During the Washington, D.C., gatherings, Council members meet with key congressional representatives and agency staff. “A lot of communication channels are opened,” says David, as the Council members bring a “potent combination of substance and wilderness experience” to their visits with potential supporters on Capitol Hill.

When David and Barbara Churchill relocated from Boulder to Washington, D.C., they planned to carry on the environmental activism they had started in the 1970s as students at the University of Colorado. The couple wanted to remain involved in the conservation movement and maintain some connection to the Rockies. “We never lost the attachment to the West,” says David, a government contracts attorney. And one of the ways he kept that connection alive was by organizing and chairing The Wilderness Society’s President’s Council. A group of 33 Wilderness Society donors including industry consultants, retired developers, lawyers and doctors, former executive directors at public interest groups and other uniquely dedicated “Friends of Bill Meadows,” the President’s Council works to inspire fellow supporters to do more to support the organization’s mission. Spearheading the Council was a good fit for David, who booked their first meeting, in 2006, at the Jackson Lake Lodge, in Grand Teton National Park.

The regional meetings have taken Council members to the trails of Rocky Mountain National Park, Montana’s Gallatin National Forest, the Southern Appalachians and to the Cascades in 2012. Inspired by their field visits, the Council then seeks results. It has funded a poll that gauged public support for the Hidden Gems wilderness campaign in Colorado and is currently raising matching funds for the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards program. Looking ahead to Bill Meadows’ retirement, David says, “We’re going to have a big transition at The Wilderness Society this year. So, one of the goals of the President’s Council is to maintain the momentum that the organization continues to build around its place-based campaigns and national initiatives.” In 2013, the Council plans to carry that momentum on to what David describes as “sacred ground” at the Murie Center, in Moose, Wyoming. The preserved home and ranch of Olaus and Mardy Murie once served as The Wilderness Society’s headquarters and remains a cradle of conservation work. “I can’t wait to get back there,” says David, who is co-chair of the Murie Center board, “and to introduce the President’s Council to this landmark in the history of conservation.”

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Bill Newsom: Total Immersion in the Wild Conservation work continues to come at Bill Newsom from all directions. As a state appellate court judge in California for 17 years, court cases involving redwood forests crossed his desk not infrequently. While rafting whitewater rivers like the Kern, Bill waded into campaigns to protect some of the state’s most cherished watersheds. And during family adventures into the Sierras, Alaska and the Desert Southwest, campfire talk often turned to the environment. When his son Gavin was just eight years old, Bill rowed him down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in a raft. The trip turned into a “baptism” for a boy who would grow up to become the mayor of San Francisco and a dedicated conservationist. “He didn’t have a choice,” explains Bill. “It was total immersion from the time he was six months old.” Today Bill lives in Dutch Flat, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northeastern California. In addition to his efforts to support The Wilderness Society, Bill remains active with Wilderness Society partner groups like Earthjustice, and with local campaigns working to create protections for California’s Tuolumne River and the Kitlope area of British Columbia. “A million acres,” says Bill wistfully, describing the Kitlope. “That does the soul good.” So does reflecting on the literature that inspired Bill to consider his relationship to wild places. He’s moved by the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins in particular, and quotes lines like:

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. “That sums up my philosophy about wilderness—the importance and the value of it,” says Bill, who earned a master’s degree in English literature after attending law school. Through Stanford University, Bill became friends with Wallace Stegner and laments how the Pulitzer Prize-winning author watched the wild landscape around his home in the Los Altos Hills vanish under a wave of real estate development. “Stegner was disappointed at the end of his life,” recalls Bill. “He watched this whole ecosystem get taken apart.” In his letters to Bill (some of which he signed, “Arriba, Wally”), Stegner daydreamed about the Bob Marshall Wilderness and discussed the plight of California’s mountain lions. Stegner wrote to Bill in 1990, saying, “I got The Wilderness Society added to the list” of sponsors for a mountain lion initiative, which Bill spearheaded. Today, Bill remains the honorary chair of the Mountain Lion Foundation. “What is it that unites people who are members of The Wilderness Society? It’s a passion for wildness,” says Bill. “These are the people who really care about the environment.” So the baptisms continue. This summer, Bill will return to Alaska, where he remains involved in the preservation of the Taku River, which flows out of northern British Columbia. On his next trip, he’ll be immersing his six- and eight-year-old granddaughters in the wild Alaskan coastal rainforest during a cruise. Bill sets the scene: orcas, otters, eagles. “I think they will be quite thrilled.”

Lisa Sarajian

Dr. Leo Stern, Jr.

Lelia Vaughan

Paula Wolferseder Yabar

Butler Conservation

The EnTrust Fund

Leonard C. Sarapas

W. Eugene Stern

Sally S. Venerable

Barbara Wolff-Reichert

Margaret A. Cargill Foundation

Timothy Schaffner

Nancy P. Stetson

Nancy Verber

Dr. and Mrs. Francis C. Wood, Jr.

Karen Matthews and Michael Scheier

Frances W. Stevenson

Mary and Thomas Verhoeven

Scott Wood

Chester County Community Foundation, Inc.

Fairfield County Community Foundation

Karal Schlundt

Catherine M. Stiefel

Gigi and James Voegeli

John A. Woollam

Joan and Mike Schmidt

Lisa and Jon Stine

Erich Voester

Roger Worthington

Emily Schoenbaum

Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Stirn

James Wadsworth

Sara Wragge

Mary Mowbray and Roland Schroeder

Max Stolz, Jr.

Charlotte Wallace

Chris Wurtele

Heidi Schultz

Eunice and Donald Stover

Margaret Wallace

Dorothy S. Wylie

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schumann

Rick Stowe

Julie Lutz and George Wallerstein

Joyce Yaffe

Eleanor Nadler Schwartz

Marion Strack

Denise A. Ward

Jeff Yass

Muriel and Maurice Schwartz

Sally Thompson Strait

William D. Warren

Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Young

Community Foundation for the National Capital Area

Kathleen B. Schwarz

Joan and Mark Strobel

George Warrington

W. R. Young

Community Foundation of Louisville

Debby Stein-Sharpe and Jim Sharpe

Scott Stromatt

Patricia and Philip Washburn

Dr. Charles F. Zukoski

Community Foundation of Mendocino

Rosemary and Jeffrey Sherman

Ruby and William Suter

James C. Waugh

Pamela Pride Eaton and Edward Zukoski

Community Foundation of New Jersey

Alistair Sherret

Susan J. Suwinski

Dorothy and Dean Weber

Diane Shumaker

June K. Swango

Amy Vedder and Bill Weber

Lucretia and John Sias

Mark Sweeney

Speed Weed

Foundations, Corporations and Other Institutions

Jan and Carl Siechert

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Tauck

Mark Weeks

Anonymous (5)

Community Foundation of Sonoma County

Gibson Family Foundation

Frederick L. Silbernagel

Jill and Frederick Taylor

John A. Weihe

444 S Foundation

Community Foundation, Boulder County

Glickenhaus Foundation

Amy and Adam Simon

Paul W. Taylor

Marshall Weinberg

Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation

Conservation Alliance

Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund

Murali and Gouri Sivarajan

Clare E. Thaw

Alan M. Weiner

Adirondack Community Trust

Cook Inletkeeper

Goldman Sachs Gives

A. Homer Skinner

Lowell Thomas, Jr.

Sally Wells

Agua Fund, Inc.

The Coulter/Weeks Charitable Foundation Robert L. Crowell Charitable Fund

The Charles M. and Mary D. Grant Foundation

The Fanwood Foundation

The Cinnabar Foundation

Faraway Foundation

Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation

Ferguson Foundation

The Clarkson Family Foundation

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC

John and Bette Cohen Fund

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Carolyn Beall Colwell and The Colwell Family Fund

Field Family Environmental Foundation

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

The Field/Schulder Charitable Fund

Community Foundation of South Georgia Community Foundation of Western North Carolina

Mary Helen and John B. Slater

Patrick A. Thomas

John A. Wesner

American Conservation Association, Inc.

Terri and Rich Slivka

Jess D. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Robert West

Appalachian Mountain Club

The Dallas Foundation Cedar Elm Fund

Linda McMullen and Farwell Smith

Ferdinand Thun

Dana English and Tom Whalen

Argus Fund

Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

Michelle Stearns and Patrick L. Smith

James C. Tobias

Gene A. Whitaker

The Aspenwood Foundation

Davis Family Foundation

Rebecca Smith

Helen Torelli

Linda and Charles White

Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation

Cynthia O. Smyth

Glenda and Paul Torrence

Georgiana D. White

Bank of America

Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust

Anne C. Snyder

Betty Toth

Margaret White

Bear Gulch Foundation

Marguerite J. Soffa

Mr. and Mrs. Jon Tourville

Nancy Hanes White

Albert and Pamela Bendich Charitable Trust

Roger Sohn

Elizabeth J. Townsend

Searle Whitney

The Betterment Fund

Anna and Jack Sommers

Susan and Robert Townsend

Richard Wieboldt

Cornelius N. Bliss Memorial Fund

William Sowter

Thomas A. Traber

Kenneth J. Wiesen

Bluestone Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Randall S. Sprick

Barbara Trask

Stephanie Williams

Blumenthal Foundation

Mrs. Walter St. Goar

Julie A. Tullis

Lowell E. Wilson

Caroline Manning Bolton Legacy Fund

Ms. Georgie W. Stanley, II

Amy and Stephen Unfried

Peter S. Wilson

Boston Financial Management

Jennifer Stanley

Jon Ungar

Adelaide Winstead

The Boston Foundation

Cynthia C. Starkovsky

Richard Urell

Bente and Don Winston

The Brainerd Foundation

Christy and Robin Stebbins

Peter H. Van Gorp

Dianne Winter

Ruth H. Brown Foundation

Peggy Steffel

Diane Van Wyck

Patricia A. Powers and Thomas R. Wolfe

The Bullitt Foundation

Joseph and Marie Field Foundation Firehole Ranch The Flori Foundation Foundation For The Carolinas The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Michelle and Robert Friend Foundation Frontier Airlines Games That Give

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Joyce Green Family Foundation Otto Haas Charitable Trust The Marc Haas Foundation Hamill Family Foundation

Defenders of Wildlife

Harbourton Foundation

Mary B. Demere Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia

Harder Foundation

Dewoskin/Roskin Foundation The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Dole Family Foundation Dun Foundation East Bay Community Foundation The Educational Foundation of America Emerald Foundation Fund EMSA Fund, Inc. The Energy Foundation

The Harding Educational and Charitable Foundation The Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Hirschler Manufacturing, Inc. Robert and Arnold Hoffman Foundation Horton Foundation Fund of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Huplits Foundation Trust Annual Report 2011 I 23

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Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC

New York Community Trust

The Stettenheim Foundation

Jewish Communal Fund

The New-Land Foundation, Inc.

Jewish Community Endowment Fund

The Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc.

Stoller Family Charitable Lead Annuity Trust

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

The October Hill Foundation

Johnson Charitable Gift Fund

George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Foundation

J. Eric Jordan Charitable Foundation

Open Space Institute

Louis M. and Sally B. Kaplan Foundation

Orchard Foundation

Kasala Furniture

Overhills Foundation

Kendeda Fund

P Twenty-One Foundation

The Kenney Brothers Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

The Kibler Family Foundation

Panaphil Foundation

The Kibler Foundation

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation Fund Stonebridge Foundation George B. Storer Foundation Studios Architecture Sungevity Sweet Water Trust

Matching Gifts and Other Funding Adobe Systems The Baupost Group, LLC Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BlackRock Bristol-Myers Squibb Company The Bullitt Foundation Dell Direct Giving Campaign EarthShare

Dr. David W. Alsop

David Birkner

Edward A. Ames and Jane Sokolow

Robert W. Bittner

Kay Amos

Larry and Constance Blackwood

Bud and Jackie Anderson

Robert O. Blake

Marilu Anderson

Ann Blanchard

Marcia Angle and Mark Trustin Fund

Lt. Col. Kenneth Bloodworth

George and Donna Arbaugh

Carolyn Bluhm

Brenda Armstrong

Betty Blumenkamp

Doris Arnold

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Boeding

Kurt Aronow

Marjorie Boetter

Dr. and Mrs. Atwood C. Asbury

Helen S. Bolle

Amber Asimenios

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Boock

Gail Austin

Judy Bradford

Swimmer Family Foundation

EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.

Pasadena Community Foundation

T Rowe Price Program For Charitable Giving

ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.

KMTT 103.7 The Mountain

Patagonia, Inc.

GE Foundation

Tactics

Elizabeth Breunig

The Peixotto Trust

Goldman, Sachs & Company

Charles Axline

Krehbiel Family Foundation

Tall Pony Productions, Inc.

R. M. Baab

Sylvia Brody, Ph.D.

LaSalle Adams Fund

Campaign for America’s Wilderness of the Pew Environment Group

Google

The Thanksgiving Fund

Honeywell International Charity Matching

Margaret Baacke

Marilyn and Allan Brown

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bacon

Amy C. Browning

IBM Corporation

Robert D. Bacon

Joyce H. and Roland F. Bryan

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Betty Jane Baer

Mary Catherine Buck

JustGive.Org

Milena Bailey

William D. Buel

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Robert Baillie

Ms. Dale Burch

Microsoft Corporation

Martha Hatch Balph, in memory of Robert McConnell Hatch

James R. and Denise J. Burch

Dr. John Bannister

Douglas W. Burton, Jr.

The Lazar Foundation David H. Leuschen Foundation Richard and Emily Levin Foundation Living Springs Foundation Ethel M. Looram Foundation, Inc. Lubo Fund, Inc. Lyndhurst Foundation Suzan R. Mackler Fund The Marcus Foundation Marisla Foundation McCune Charitable Foundation McKibben Merner Family Foundation Mellam Family Foundation Merck Family Fund Merlin Foundation Middle Fork River Expeditions Montana Import Group The Mosaic Fund Mumford Family Foundation The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation National Forest Foundation New Hampshire Charitable Foundation New Mexico Community Foundation New Prospect Foundation

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Princeton Area Community Foundation The Prospect Hill Foundation Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Resources Law Group, LLP Resources Legacy Fund Foundation Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation The Rice Family Foundation B. T. Rocca, Jr. Foundation San Diego Foundation The San Francisco Foundation SB Foundation Schaffner Family Foundation Sarah I. Schieffelin Residuary Trust Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund The Seattle Foundation Elmina B. Sewall Foundation The Shanbrom Family Foundation Sierra Club

The Thomas Foundation Tortuga Foundation Town Creek Foundation TSC Foundation, Inc. Turner Foundation, Inc. Jane Smith Turner Foundation United Way of Greater New Haven University of Alaska, Fairbanks van Itallie Foundation, Inc. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Network For Good PepsiCo Foundation The Pfizer Foundation Recreational Equipment, Inc.

Tom and Currie Barron Donald Barry and Teiko Saito

Roll Giving

Emma Bartoy

The Robert Marshall Council

Peggy Winslow Baum Keith Bean

Wilburforce Foundation

We are pleased to acknowledge the following individuals who have included The Wilderness Society in their wills or other estate plans. The Robert Marshall Council is named for one of our founders, a visionary conservation hero who was the first person to help further our work with a bequest.

The Wyss Foundation

Anonymous (337)

Yosemite Conservancy

James F. Acton

Geraldine S. Violett Charitable Foundation Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc. Walt Disney Company White Pine Fund Whiting Arnold Foundation Wiancko Charitable Foundation Wide Waters Fund The William B. Wiener, Jr. Foundation

Kate, Bob and Andrew Smith Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Janet C. and Ronald L. Adams

Solberg Manufacturing, Inc.

David N. Allen

State Street Foundation

Dr. Mary Virginia Allen

Eric and Audra Adelberger

Dianne G. Batch David M. Bean John and Ann Beane Phil and Lynn Beedle Beverly S. Bender Charles and Elin Bennett Walter Benton Billie Louise Bentzen Todd and Betty Berens Howard A. and Dorothy G. Berger Jan and Keith Bergman Sandra Berndt Brian Besser

Michael F. Burns Pauline B. Campbell Lisa C. Caplan Arthur Cappello Louise Carney Frances Chamberlin Carter Margaret D. Carter Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly John T. and Theresa D. Cederholm Robert and Barbara Chabot Ms. Ying-Chien Chang Margaret and Robert Chasson Charles B. Chedsey Luann K. Cheney-Smith Sandra and Daniel Ciske David B. Clark Lois J. Cleworth

Christina Wong: Leading with an Eye on Global Sustainability © Amberle Fant

Louis and Jane Jacobson Foundation

Christina Wong didn’t expect to dive right into the heart of the matter. But in 2010, as a new member of The Wilderness Society’s Governing Council and while attending her first Council meeting, she suddenly realized the magnitude of the path she was on—and of her accomplishment at being asked, at age 26, the first college graduate in her family, to join the Council. “The roll call was a powerful experience for me,” says Christina, a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. She had just returned from China, where she was studying Beijing’s unfolding environmental sustainability efforts. She rose to greet her fellow Council members by saying: “I’ve seen degradation on the other side of the world. It’s what happens when you don’t have organizations like this. It’s such a privilege to be part of The Wilderness Society.” In her graduate studies, Christina, a California native, has been researching the ways that China is struggling to bring ecological balance to its burgeoning cities. In her travels, she met Chinese students who had never seen a truly wild place. “They couldn’t imagine what it would be like to see roaring rivers,” says Christina, who recently explored Saguaro National Park, near Tucson, where, “it’s so peaceful, I’m able to remember why I do the work I do.”

Arches National Park, in Utah, is where Christina was first introduced to the beauty and inspiration of wilderness. “It was a big family vacation, and I was 10 years old. We were walking along the trail at Arches. And at first you don’t see anything, but then. . . .” Christina trails off with a sigh, remembering the spectacular sight of Delicate Arch. “We were all so speechless.” As a teenager in San Francisco, Christina joined the Student Conservation Association (SCA). On an SCA trip the summer before her senior year in high school, she backpacked into Northern California’s Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest. Way back in the woods, the group worked to restore riparian habitat and together developed a deeper appreciation for wilderness. “It was amazing for the first time in our lives to be in a place like that,” she says, “and to think about the work we put in and what it meant for the future.” Today, Christina carries on this work by tackling big questions about the ecological future of the world’s cities. In China, she researches private initiatives and public works projects that interlink to deliver benefits like cleaner air and water and more green space. “What I’m really passionate about is finding ways to be more sustainable as a human population,” she says. “We need to bring more environmental benefits into our cities while making our cities more accountable to the wildlands that provide essential cultural and life-supporting services.” To the Governing Council, Christina says she brings, “an urban perspective, but also one based on the science of ecosystem services.” Christina came away from her first Governing Council meeting in 2010 with the sense that The Wilderness Society’s story was now part of her story—and part of her work as a budding expert in sustainability. “I’m proud to be a piece of the puzzle,” she says.

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You Can Give at Work

Thank you to the many donors who contributed to The Wilderness Society last year through corporate, state, city and county workplace giving campaigns. If you are a federal employee, you can support our work by designating #10638 on your pledge sheet during the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC ). The Wilderness Society is a founding member of Earth Share, a federation of America’s leading non-profit environmental and conservation organizations working together to promote environmental education and charitable giving through workplace giving campaigns. For more information regarding The Wilderness Society, Earth Share or workplace giving, please contact The Society’s Membership Services Department at 1-800-The-Wild or member@tws.org.

Wesley E. and Sophie G. Dirks

Louis M. Fiorentino

Mark Hallee

L. Barrie and Shirley Hunt

John and Ruth Kolvas

Caroline Lowsma

Patricia L. Minnick

Theresa A. Perenich

Frank and Regina Discenza

B. Ellen Fisher

Natalie W. Halpin

Bill and Bonnie Jackson

E. A. Komczyk

Jean A. Lucken

Phoebe Montagne

Dottie Perry

Lorraine W. Ditta

Mrs. Joseph L. Fisher

Anne Hammes

Karen J. Jacobs

Kay Koplovitz

Dayton Lummis

Claire W. Mooers

Miss Polly Perry

Martin Dodge

John J. Floreth

Felicity Hammer

Jacques F. Jacobson

Margaret Kornfeil

Larry L. Lundberg

Dr. James A. Morris

J. Henry Peters

Harry L. Dodson

Agnes Hughes and Gunther Fonken

John S. Hand, Ph.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Graham A. Jamieson

Eugene V. and Lenore M. Kosso

Mary J. Lundell

Robert H. Mosher

Craig M. Peterson, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Dolan

Paul J. Fox

Russ and Patty Hannon

Moreau Jansky Parsons

Betty J. Kraker

James Macfadden

Irene Mostek

Lewis and Joanna Scott Picher

Mr. R. Stephen Dorsey

Charles and Deborah Frank

Harvey A. Hansen

Tim and Jan Jaskoski

Dr. Robert L. Kriel

Lawrence R. and Helen Jane Mack

Constance Mounce

John D. Pickelman

Dorothy L. Douglass

Edwin and Cheryl Franke

Lynne W. Hansen

Allen L. Jefferis

Mark Nelson and Connie Krummrich

R. Mamula

Ann M. Murphy

Gail Pigeon

Ann H. Downer

Helene Frankel

David and Eileen Hardy

Ann and Louis K. Jensen

H. William Kuni

Joanne Manoway

Beth Murphy

Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Plank

Edward Doyle

Barbara J. Fraser

Pollyana Harmon

Lucie Johns

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Kurz

C. L. Marshall

Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Murray

Nancy and Robert Plaxico

Jules H. Drucker

Avery Freed

Roger and Margaret Harmon

Christopher G. and Linda L. B. Johnson

Kathy L. Kuyper

Harry A. Marshall, III

Ross Murray

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Pollock

Michael Dryfoos and Ilga Jansons

Leona B. Freist

Donna M. Harris, D.V.M.

Denny Johnson

Robert Kvaas

David A. Martin

Olga R. Najacht

Phyllis J. Polumbo

Carol Dulaney

Mary Anne Freyer

Miriam Harris, Ph.D.

Kristine Johnson

Greg A. La Fortune

Howard and Fay Marx

Ruth H. Neff

Gerald and Barbara Porter

Don Dumelow

Dr. Virginia S. Furrow

Jessie M. Harris

Mark and Dorothy Johnson

Virginia A. La Marche

Cindy Marzolf

Darby and Geri Nelson

Myrna Barbara Pototsky

Paul L. Dunklee Fund

Dr. and Mrs. James Gaddis

Susan K. Harris

Dr. Nelson Jones

Jon C. Lafleur

Mrs. Robert M. Mason

Katherine M. Ness

Nancy and Ben. G. M. Priest

Arthur Dusdall

M. Lee Gaillard

John H. Harvey, Ph.D.

Jane Laporte

Miss Helen Mattin

Dr. Margery Nicolson

Alice F. Primrose

James and Marge Dwyer

Sarah F. Gaines

Doris Haskell

Dr. Warren R. Jones and Mrs. Janet B. Jones

Nancy M. Mayer

Susan Niles

Susan Puder

Margo and George Earley

Audrey Gallow

Georgina Hasney

Thomas J. Joyce

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Larson Catherine L. Latham

Edmund E. McCann

Florence C. Norstrom

Lorraine Puhek

Jennifer Eden

Christopher D. Gates

DeeAnn A. Hast

Drs. Richard L. and Frances M. Latterell

Lawrance H. McClung

Edward W. Norton

Freda-Wood Purvis

Dr. Norman L. Egger

Eletha Elrick Gerber

Christine B. Hayes

Dr. Louis F. Lawrence

Ann McDonald

Jan K. and Judith E. Novak

L. Scott Pyle

William J. Ehmann

John W. Gintell

Gerhard D. Heiter

Mrs. Fred F. Lawson

Elizbeth Taillon McFee

Lois I. Nowak

Dr. Carolyn S. Quinn

Mim Eisenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ginzler

DeWitt J. Henderson

Kirk Lawton

Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. McGavran, Jr.

Clifford B. O’Connell

Charles and Audrey Raebeck

C. Elliman

Eliot Girsang and Richard Wilson

T. Henneforth

Dr. and Mrs. Guy W. Leadbetter, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. McGrady

Dorothy and Alan Obre

H. Richard Randall

Benton Elliott

Scott and Nadine Goetz

Eric and Sylvie Henning

Tom and Barbara Leggat

John G. McInnis

Dr. and Mrs. John L. Graham

Robert W. Hewitt

Dr. Steven Leifheit and Ms. Pamela Hale

Don McNabb

Mr. Gerald Orcholski and Mr. Jim Phillips

James McChesney Ranson

Daphne Elliott Barbara E. Ellis

Fredianne Gray

Jeannette Hierstein

Dr. and Mrs. Rolf W. Lemp

Mary Margaret McPherson

John and Gloria Osberg

Sandra Rasche

Joan Levers

Charles and Christine McCleary

Dr. Lynn Levitt

Nancy McLachlin

Ms. B. J. Lewis

Deanna L. Mechensky

Linda A. Lewis

G. A. Melnick

Mary L. Lewis

Brenda Melstein

Mrs. Vivian R. Liddell

George and Judith Mercer

Ben Liles, Jr.

Donald B. Mercill and Pari L. Morse

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindstrom

Betty Meyer

Joan C. Lindusky

Kay E. Meyer

Carol T. Linnig

Ed Miller

Stephen and Kathleen Linowski

Edward D. Miller, M.D.

Nina Liu

John J. B. Miller

Sally C. Lockwood

Leslie Miller

Ruth Lofgren

Margaret Miller

Ann Lowry

Marion A. Mills

Barbara and Bertram Cohn

Al and Yvonne Cullen

Linda Jo Ellis

John Gray

Eva Higgins

Theodore and Alice Cohn

Bethia S. Currie

Frances B. Elston

MacBryan Green, M.D.

S. M. Highberger

Mary B. Cole

Neil W. Currie

Howard Ennes, Jr.

Margaret S. Gregory

Mary Lou Hill

David A. Collins

Guy E. Dahms

Steven G. Erwood

Edna Grenlie

Mr. and Mrs. Hill

Marcie D. Colpas

Sali T. Dalton

Dr. B. B. Eshbaugh

Jeffrey and Rebecca Himsl

RoseAnn B. Comstock

Benjamin Davis

Donna Esteves

Christine L. Dickey and Stephen L. Griffith

Anne and Bill Conn

Brenda and Swep Davis

Dave Evans

Nina B. Griswold

Dr. Leroy G. Holub

Dr. Mary L. Contakos

Ms. Nancy Davlantes

William D. Evers

Betty Cooke

Edward and Sherry Ann Dayton

Phyllis Falconer

Carol Copp

Jon Deak

Elizabeth A. Feldhusen

Brian Corey

Michael and Arlene DiMenna

Gary Fenstamaker

C. D. Cornwell

Susan Diaz

Marla A. Ferguson

Anne M. Cowan

William T. Dickerson

Mr. Francesco Ferraro

John L. Coyier

Mr. and Mrs. James G. Dillon

Mrs. Darrell F. Fienup

Frank Gary Crom

Sylvia Ruth Dillon

Arthur L. Finn

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Jean E. Groff Sharyn Groslyn Gayle Hackamack Gary and Carolyn Haden William B. Hale Jonathan B. Hales David Edward and Nancy Mullen Hall Julie and Parker Hall

Edward Hoagland Dr. and Mrs. C. Ian Hood Amanda W. Hopkins Perry Y. Hopkins H. W. Hopp William and Lois Horn Mary B. Horne James H. and Sherry P. Hubbard Dr. Morton W. Huber

Jay M. Julian Phyllis F. and Roy E. Kadle Ruth Gannett Kahn Jean Kane Dorothy S. Kanehl Kevin A. Karl Barbara O. Keeton Anne Kelemen William B. Kelly Dr. James S. Key Robert and Jane Kibler Sharon A. Killough P. Jean Kincaid Brad M. King Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Kirk Mrs. William F. Kirsch, Jr. John M. Kittross Josephine W. Kixmiller Paul C. Klahr Susan C. Klein Lillian Klepper Jean Klotzbach Mr. and Mrs. William E. Knox

Ms. Robbie Oxnard Diane Pace Patricia A. Packer Marsha E. Palitz Deborah E. Palmer Henry Parker Mary Webster Parker Mrs. Raymond D. Parker Regina B. Pasche Lucile B. Patrick Cynthia C. Payne In Memory of David and Moolah Pearlmutter Jerold Pearson Robert and Madeline Pendergrass

Kelly M. Ranson Philip and Pamela Reinhart Maryann Reis Gail F. Reissen Kathleen Elyse Schmidt Renquist Lois L. Richardson Marie W. Ridder Ruth Robinson Dr. and Mrs. Gaylan L. Rockswold Linda C. and Edward H. Roesner Mark Rohling Edmond and Phyllis Root F. D. Rose Dr. Robert M. Ross Kenneth A. Rosvold Victoria Roy Annual Report 2011 I 27

A Wilderness Society donor

Helen Bolle remembers the night in the mid1930s when she met her husband, Arnie, who went on to become a renowned forester and a 16-year member of The Wilderness Society’s Governing Council. “It was a potluck dinner for the hiking club at the University of Montana,” she recalls. The two students clicked, and they were married in 1937 after finishing college. Helen, a Missoula native, was comfortable around foresters. Her father, K.D. Swan, had worked for decades with the U.S. Forest Service. (He Helen & Arnie Bolle occasionally hiked with his friend Bob Marshall, a Wilderness Society founder.) Arnie worked briefly for the Forest Service early in his career, going on to spend 15 years with the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). While working in Wyoming for the SCS, Arnie took a leave of absence to be a wrangler at a friend’s dude ranch. Helen became the ranch cook. “Fortunately, no one died from what came out of the kitchen,” she jokes.

After their stint in the East, the Bolles returned to Missoula and the Rattlesnake Valley. Arnie joined the faculty of the University of Montana’s School of Forestry, eventually becoming the dean. The couple, along with their three children, built the house in which Helen, 95, still lives. “We’re right on the edge of Greenough Park, which adjoins the Rattlesnake Wilderness Area, so it’s a very natural setting,” she says. An enthusiastic birder, Helen sees lots of chickadees, nuthatches and an occasional pileated woodpecker. “Once, we had an influx of lazuli buntings, which are a very pretty blue. Arnie and I used to go out on cold, snowy December days to help with the Audubon’s Christmas bird count.” In recent years, during the fall, a few black bears have wandered into the neighborhood. “They’re hungry, getting ready to hibernate,” Helen notes. “Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff will take them to remote spots where they are expected to stay, but the bears don’t seem to know that. It’s fun to have bears around, but kind of scary, too.” She says that her children, eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild share her appreciation of the natural world. The Wilderness Society was always special to the Bolles. Helen has fond memories of Wilderness Society trips that she and Arnie took to Alaska, Colorado and the Appalachian Trail, among many others. “It was great to get to know people on the board, such as Wallace Stegner, Mardy Murie, Tom Barron and his wife, Currie, and Terry Tempest Williams.” Two years before Arnie’s death in 1994, he and Helen deepened their long history of financial support to The Wilderness Society with a gift annuity—a gift to the organization that also generates income for Helen for her lifetime.

John L. Rundle, Jr.

Vi Strain

Ruth B. Whipple

Jane D’Alessandro

Edwin P. Lepper

Douglas M. Ruthardt

Sally Thompson Strait

Roger B. White

Evelyn G. Davies

Bertha A. Lewis

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Saltonstall

Lanie Strassburger

Mildred A. Lillis

Georgene Stratman

Richard Arnold and Marshall Hackett Whiting

Elizabeth J. Dobbie

Jaya Salzman

Albert and Althea Lubersky

Elizabeth A. Sartor

Joanna Sturm

Jerry Sass

Sheila and John Suarez

Nelson C. Doland, Jr., in memory of Jayne S. Doland, and Ethel S. and Nelson C. Doland, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Schaefer

Glen V. Swegle

Gloria G. and Karl F. Schlaepfer

Karen J. Swope

Helen L. Schneider

Karen P. Thomas

Lester Schneider

Mr. and Mrs. H. Keith Tiedemann

Elizabeth C. Schoeberlein

Robert Tolfree

Ellen Marshall Scholle

L. Diane Tompkins

Curtis Schuppe In Honor of Gwendolyn Schwartz

Joyce Tullock

Eleanor Nadler Schwartz

Dr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Turner

Dr. James Scott and Dr. Heidi Fleischmann

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Tuttle

Mrs. Henry M. Shafer

John H. Tyler

Norma Gudin Shaw

Dr. and Mrs. David C. Ulmer, Jr.

Max and Nadia Shepard

Abigail P. van Alstyne

Robert Shultz

Ms. Paulette Vartabedian

Harold and June Siebert

Nancy Verber

Ann B. Simpson

Gigi and James Voegeli

Beverly L. Simpson

Donald A. Vogel

“The Wilderness Society is a wonderful group,” says Helen. “We’re losing nature, but The Wilderness Society isn’t going to let that happen.”

Charles Tucker Wilkinson

Michael Owen Willson

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

Ruth W. Fields

Gail Wilson and Tim Archibald

Victor and Molly Norman

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

JoAnn W. Flock

Bente and Don Winston

Spaulding A. Norris

Frontier Airlines

Melvin H. Friedman

Eleanor and Frederick Winston

Robert C. and Patricia R. Olson

Google

Helen M. Fruth

Dr. Richard W. and Ms. Lynn D. Woerpel

Mary Jane Parker

IBM Corporation

Doris C. Gally

Barry H. Wolf

Patricia E. Piepho

Jenner & Block LLP

James W. Gerard, II

Michael N. Wood

Elizabeth H. Prather

Kittitas County Health Department

George H. Gough

Steven Woodbury and Ann Bauer

Bonnie M. Rhodes

KMTT 103.7 The Mountain

Ralph and Dorothy Graham Memorial Fund

Scott Woodward

Hazel Roy

Middle Fork River Expeditions

Robert and Katie Grote

Prof. Herbert E. Wright

David Rynin

Montana Import Group

Grace Cooper Harrison

Reverend and Mrs. Roger G. Wrigley

Chester Sausaman

Recreational Equipment, Inc.

Sylvia L. Harrup

Margaret J. Young

Mendon F. Schutt Family Fund

Red Light Management

Gale P. Henning

Denise L. Zembryki

Edna D. Scoppa

Rocking Horse Bakery

Marvelle A. Herbster

Ronald Simonton

Sun Mountain Lodge

Ben Zuckerman

The Ouida Mundy Hill Memorial Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation

George V. and Jean A. Smith

Western Environmental Law Center

Lois J. Smith

WolfCreek Partners

Grace C. Stebbins

YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

Bequests

David D. Skryja

Billy C. and Jo Ann L. Wallace Revocable Trusts

We are deeply honored and grateful to acknowledge gifts received during fiscal year 2011 from the estates of the following individuals:

Peter A. Soria Dr. Dennis Spitz James and Dolores Sprague M. G. Springer Steven R. Stegner Dr. and Mrs. Marion B. Stewart Barbara Rogers Stinson Eleanor H. Stoddard

Robert Wallace Judy A. Warner Aimee M. Waters P. M. Watson R. D. Watson Kendrick C. Webb Marshall M. Weinberg Jim E. Weinel Sally Wells Salome and Charles Wells Ginia Davis Wexler Marilyn P. Whelan

Earthjustice

Joseph H. Nathan

Jack Waldron

Suzanne Snow

Big Moose Coffee

Susan Egnew

Thomas A. Skerry

Judge E. Wallace

Dr. Barbara McEwen

Barrio Action Youth and Family Center

Thomas D. Williams

Joseph and Carol Waldner

John R. Smith

Mildred L. McEntire

Baker Botts LLP

Roger M. Williams

Tom Willey

James R. Wagner

Anthony M. Smith

Mary C. Drazy

Helen C. McCabe

Abernathy MacGregor Group Inc.

Dale Druckrey Conservation Fund of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin

Sandra K. Skaggs

Ruth Storms

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Edward B. Whitney

Charles and Mary Sinclair

Jennifer and Edmund A. Stanley, Jr.

After Arnie returned to work with the SCS, the Bolles moved to Okanogan, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In the 1950s, they moved to Boston, where Arnie earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in public administration from Harvard.

Robert R. Traut

Phyllis Whitney Tabor

Contributed Services and In-Kind Gifts

Swananoa P. Hill Joy R. Hilliard

Vera S. McGonigle Marvin L. McKinley

Eaton Canyon Nature Center

Mary P. Stegner Mary I. Stevenson

Photography:

R. J. Stewart

Fred Hanselmann

Culbreth Sudler, Jr.

Alexander Johnson

Geza G. and Anna L. Horvath

Maja Teufer

Larry Master

Anabelle Howard

Raymond D. Weeter

Holly Werran

Esther M. Barlow

Eleanor A. Imrie

Dr. George B. Whatley

Thelma P. Bates

Evelyn Jacobsen

Winifred S. White

Agnes S. Berz

Carolyn S. Johnson

Della I. Wiegand

Mary Jane Better

Lisa E. Kellogg

Mildred B. Witt

Pauline Bill

Florence S. Kennedy

Viola H. Winder

Martin Brandeis

Marcia Bowman Klein

Patricia C. Youngman

Wilma A. Buchman

William L. Kline

Valerie A. van der Heyden

Claude P. Burt

Herbert P. Lafair

Dale H. Champion

Leslie M. Leonelli

Anonymous (2) Mary P. Aiken Earl P. and Olive S. Andrews

Ralph Hollander Doris M. Holm, in memory of John Robert Holm

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Statements of Financial Position

A Relentless Focus on our Mission

(Fiscal years ended September 30)

In 2011, The Wilderness Society, like so many other nonprofits, continued to feel the impact of a down economy. While we began the year with promising revenue streams, they began to soften with escalating economic uncertainties over the summer. We then made a strategic decision to pull upon our capital reserves in order to balance the budget and minimize the impact to our work. We remain committed to our mission and have great confidence in our obligation to deliver results.

Our Members and Supporters

Fiscal Year 2011 Expenses 4%

2009

500,000

Changes in Key Balances 60,000,000

50,000,000

40,000,000

2010

30,000,000

509,000

81%

20,000,000 10,000,000 REVENUES ASSETS

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & GENERAL MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

If you would like to receive a copy of our audited financial statements, or if you have any questions about this overview or The Wilderness Society, please contact us at: The Wilderness Society Attn: Membership Services 1615 M Street, NW â&#x20AC;˘ Washington, DC 20036-3209 E-mail: member@tws.org or visit: http://wilderness.org/about-us/annual-report

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2011

2010

2009

47,393 4,878,850 9,943,318 358,748 12,823,690 5,420,564 786,122 8,733,848 645,680 2,147,665 $ 45,785,878

579,859 $ 1,442,778 10,522,057 12,545,623 12,641,371 9,145,431 359,794 323,054 12,580,693 11,161,684 5,703,670 5,731,044 663,297 7,168,444 7,190,283 5,082,819 899,168 562,191 2,012,387 2,334,293 $ 53,152,579 $ 55,497,361

$ 2,369,947 36,030 325,228 3,257,860 5,989,065

$ 3,301,719 26,030 105,378 3,196,300 6,629,427

$ 2,943,812 26,030 235,358 3,495,372 6,700,572

8,377,625 20,142,603 11,276,575 39,796,803 $ 45,785,868

8,071,666 27,131,089 11,320,397 46,523,152 $ 53,152,579

8,325,742 29,206,478 11,264,569 48,796,789 $ 55,497,361

$ 14,016,872 $ 11,909,951 6,499,963 7,803,470 545,136 633,852 21,061,971 20,347,273 599,700 363,739 1,421,242 1,883,907 23,082,913 22,594,919

$ 26,160,097 6,004,290 372,385 32,536,772 698,753 1,353,480 34,589,005

Statements of Activities

2011

509,000

Assets Cash and cash equivalents Accounts and contributions receivable Capital reserve investments Scholarship investments Endowment investments Planned giving investments Long-term receivables Beneficial interest in assets held by others Prepaid and other assets Furniture, equipment and leasehold improvements (net) Total assets Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses Custodial funds Deferred rent Planned giving liabilities Net Assets Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted Total liabilities and net assets

2009

2010

NET ASSETS 2011

Revenues Individuals Foundations Corporations Total contributions Investment income Other Total revenues Expenses Program Services Conservation projects Public education Support services Fundraising Management and general Total expenses Change in net assets from operations Gains (losses) from investments Other changes in net assets Beginning net assets Ending net assets

21,081,328 5,736,014 26,817,342 4,084,637 2,102,331 6,186,968 33,004,310 (9,921,397) 216,307 2,978,741 46,523,152 $ 39,796,803

18,854,346 5,574,243 24,428,589 3,976,103 1,636,932 5,613,035 30,041,624 (7,446,705) 2,600,408 2,572,660 48,796,789 $ 46,523,152

17,556,328 5,213,443 22,769,771 4,399,893 1,474,646 5,874,539 28,644,310 5,944,695 1,433,630 (941,543) 42,360,007 $ 48,796,789

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Governing Council and Staff Molly McUsic, Chevy Chase, MD,

Stewart and Judith Colton, Short

Ted and Penny Thomas,

California

Wilderness Support Center

Vice Chair*

Hills, NJ

Princeton, NJ

Heather Kendall Miller,

Anne R. Conn, Seattle, WA

Andrew Turner, Ph.D., and Barbara

Anchorage, AK

Margo Earley, Mount Hood, OR

Turner, Seattle, WA

655 Montgomery St. (#1000) San Francisco, CA 94111 415-398-1111

1309 E. 3rd Ave. (# 36) Durango, CO 81301 970-247-8788

Scott A. Nathan, Boston, MA

James and Margaret Ellsworth, Mill

Marshall Hackett Whiting and Richard

Jaime Pinkham, St. Paul, MN

Valley, CA

Arnold, Telluride, CO

Rebecca L. Rom, Ely, MN

Chris and Margo Enbom, San

Edward B. Whitney, New York, NY

Theodore Roosevelt IV, New York, NY

Anselmo, CA

Eleanor and Frederick M. Winston,

Patrick L. Smith, Arlee, MT

Dan Flickinger, Seattle, WA

Wayzata, MN

Idaho

Cathy Douglas Stone, Boston, MA

Rick Flory and Lee Robert, Paradise

Marsha M. Zelus, Carmel, CA

950 W. Bannock St. (#605) Boise, ID 83702 208-343-8153

Sara Vera, Seattle, WA Douglas Walker, Seattle, WA, Chair* Christina Wong, Tempe, AZ Hansjörg Wyss, West Chester, PA* * Executive Officers

Honorary Council Frances G. Beinecke, Bronx, NY Robert O. Blake, Washington, DC Gilman Ordway, Wilson, WY

The Wilderness Society helped fund and staff YMCA trips in 2010 and 2011 to bring urban youth camping along the Appalachian Trail.

Charles Wilkinson, Boulder, CO

Valley, AZ

* Chair of the President’s Council

Ann Harvey, Wilson, WY Gerald and Lena Hirschler, Kirkland, WA

Staff William H. Meadows, President

Vice Presidents

Utah

Henry D. Lord, New Haven, CT

Sara Barth

Patrick and Sandy Martin,

Melanie Beller

1055 East 200, South Salt Lake City, UT 84102 801-355-8504

Evanston, IL

Ashford Chancelor

Janice Miller, Pacific Palisades, CA

Spencer Phillips

Priscilla Natkins, Scarsdale, NY

Jane Taylor

Robert S. Osborne, McLean, VA

Paula Wolferseder Yabar

Diane Parish and Paul Gelburd,

Governing Council

President’s Council

Edward A. Ames, Riverdale, NY

Majora Carter, Bronx, NY

Joseph H. Ellis, Cornwall, CT

Washington, DC

Gail Austin, Georgetown, KY

Nancy Plaxico, Annapolis, MD

James R. Baca, Albuquerque, NM

Bethine Church, Boise, ID

David J. Field, Gladwyne, PA

Marcia Kunstel, Jackson, WY,

Allan and Marilyn Brown, Portola

Gaylan Rockswold, M.D., Ph.D.,

Alaska

Valley, CA

Golden Valley, MN

Kevin Luzak, New York, NY, Treasurer*

Frances Chamberlin Carter, Green

Carl and Jan Siechert, Pasadena, CA

Michael A. Mantell, Sacramento, CA

Valley, AZ

Terri and Rich Slivka, Denver, CO

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Dave Matthews, Charlottesville, VA

David* and Barbara Churchill,

Robin Stebbins, Ph.D., Silver

Bethesda, MD

Spring, MD

George T. Frampton, New York, NY

Richard Blum, San Francisco, CA

William J. Cronon, Ph.D., Madison,

Jerry F. Franklin, Ph.D., Issaquah, WA

WI, Vice Chair*

Caroline M. Getty, Corona Del

Brenda S. Davis, Ph.D.,

Mar, CA

David Bonderman, Fort Worth, TX* Crandall Bowles, Charlotte, NC

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Michael and Ann Loeb, New York, NY

Reginald “Flip” Hagood,

Bertram J. Cohn, New York, NY

Colorado

Jeffrey Kenner, New York, NY

Christopher J. Elliman, New York, NY

Thomas A. Barron, Boulder, CO

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Ed Groark, McLean, VA

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Photography credits Front cover: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah. © Michael DeYoung/www. michaeldeyoungphotography.com Back cover: Picture Lake, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. © Jim Nelson

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In Memoriam David Harding Getches 1942 – 2011 Scholar and authority on environmental, water, public lands and Native American law Dean, University of Colorado Law School, 2003 – 2011 Governing Council, The Wilderness Society, 2000 – 2011

“

Gone, regrettably yes, but he made a lasting difference that outlives him. His presence in this world is not hard to find in both people and places. It will always be found in the treaty fishery of the Pacific Northwest, a Native borough on the north slope of Alaska and the Colorado Plateau, to name a mere few. He gave us a never-ending contribution that underscores his passion for the natural world and Native people.... If you believe, as I do, that the land has a language and rhythm of its own, then certainly wild places in this country are also paying tribute to their hero and friend.

”

Jaime Pinkham Vice President – Native Nations, Bush Foundation Governing Council, The Wilderness Society

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