Southern Sierran
Save The Date: Western Wilderness Conference 2010 New Aims, New Allies

BY VICKY HOOVER
Sierra Club CA/NV Wilderness Committee

The conference promises to teach how to better protect the Earth's wild places, like Banning Ranch PHOTO BY TERRY WELSH

Although the event will take place in California's San Francisco Bay Area, wilderness organizations and advocates from all twelve western states, including Alaska, are involved, and wild lands advocates from all those states are enthusiastically invited to participate in this grand event.

Who's invited? Wilderness advocates, both professionals and volunteers, new advocates; Native American leaders, land agency personnel, outings leaders, individuals, college students and faculty, representatives of organizations working on quiet recreation and on varied land-preservation efforts, decision makers at different levels of government.

Why attend? Western Wilderness Conference 2010 will inspire interested new advocates, including students, to preserve our nation's remaining wild places, while re-sinspiring longtime dedicated wilderness advocates to vigorous new advocacy with renewed motivation.

It will offer a forum to discuss and debate timely wilderness-related topics, particularly as they relate to global warming changes, explore how to incorporate Native American traditional land-ethic and cultural values into wildlands advocacy and promote getting children outside into Nature's wild places.

Activists can attend training sessions to become more effective advocates for wild places; preservation, and of course, you'll have fun. Speakers, plenary sessions, workshops, music, meals, outings! It's all part of the celebration of the West’s wild places. Berkeley, California. April 8 - 11, 2010.

Sierra Club, California Wilderness Coalition, and Northwest Parks and Wilderness Conference are the main planning organizations.

Check out the conference website: www.westernwilderness.org/

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