The Darrow Foundation, which is based in Maine, supports wilderness canoeing programs and outdoor education for young people.
You may not like driving behind the guy in the Land Cruiser, but he's probably voting for open space in his community, supporting wilderness bills and contributing to the Nature Conservancy.
The Web site for a campaign the group sponsors, www.stoputahlandgrab.org, ties SUWA's and Representative Hinchey's support for wilderness protection to increased dependence on foreign oil and to aid to terrorists.
During this time, Marshall continued to financially support The Wilderness Society, as well as various civil rights, labor, and socialist organizations.
I don't think popular support for wilderness has ever waned in this country -- exploring untrammeled ground is too deeply embedded in American tradition.
Instead, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior (DoI), and some local environmental supporters (with whom I often have strong common cause) manipulated, misreported and misrepresented science in their desire to support expanded wilderness".
It is reasonable that Parsons would have needed paternal support during the wilderness years.
The phrase comes from a 1960 letter Stegner wrote in support of the Wilderness Act, which Congress passed four years later.
But the Bush plan holds the corporate energy lobby in higher esteem than ordinary Americans who breathe the air, drink the water and overwhelmingly support protecting our wilderness.
"We had a decision to make: Do we pursue this opportunity to protect these special places or do we not?" said Jeremy Garncarz, the associate director of wilderness support at the Wilderness Society.
