Stewardship Campaign News

A promising trend - science and policy are reunited

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:51 +0000

This year is shaping up to be a banner year for environmental policy. The Obama administration is making decisions based on sound science and reason, peeling away actions and policies created in the past administration that significantly weakened environmental protections. The administration is establishing a new hope for our forests and wildlife.

Not the time to rest. Let’s maximize new era of conservation funding

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:54 +0000

After years of suffering through a presidential administration that starved federal conservation programs of adequate funding, such programs are finally getting the needed boost they deserve.

In October, Congress gave a significant funding increase to the Interior Department, which is responsible for most U.S. land conservation and management. The $4.6 billion funding increase will go towards a series of important projects and initiatives long pushed for by The Wilderness Society and the rest of the conservation community.

From the Wild9 Congress comes hope

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:43:04 +0000

My experience at the 9th World Wilderness Congress started with a red-eye flight that got me to Merida, Mexico just in time to hear Dr.

Back Country Horsemen team up with Wilderness Society

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:30:08 +0000

Aldo Leopold, co-founder of The Wilderness Society and a preeminent voice in the conservation world defined wilderness as “a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two week’s [horse] pack trip.” In his most famous book, A Sand County Almanac, he provided two examples of “primitive skills in pioneering travel…”one of these is canoe travel, and the other is travel by packtrain.”