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wild lands to ensure a future of
wild places for people and wildlife.

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WWA THANKS

for their support!
 

It's THAT Time of Year!

Do you like a good challenge?

The Earth Friends Wildlife Foundation has challenged the Wyoming Wilderness Association with a grant, but there’s a catch: we need a little help from the rest of our supporters. Wyoming Wilderness Association is actively conducting wild land inventories, educating citizens and empowering activists to build support for wilderness and roadless areas in the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests.

Donations made to WWA through the Old Bill's Fun Run during August and September will help us meet the Earth Friends challenge AND give us a percentage match from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. Through this and additional fundraising, we aim to convert the Earth Friends challenge into a $64,000 effort on behalf of all the wildlife, watersheds, and wild places you love across the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests.

Visit www.oldbills.org to make an online donation BEFORE SEPTEMBER 19^TH
(or mail a check to CFJH, PO Box 574, Jackson 83001 in our name)! Thank you in advance for taking part in this DOUBLY motivating challenge!

ANOTHER WAY TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT WWA – Attend the Grand Teton Wildlife and Western Art Show, Saturday, September 6, 2008 at Snow King Resort from 5:00 – 7:30.  25% of any purchase you make will be given to WWA!  When a purchase is made the buyer will direct the artist as to which group should receive the 25% donation. Artworks range from $500 to over $15,000. We encourage you and your friends to attend this fundraising opportunity. To view artists and a description of the show, check out the published review at www.westernandwildlifeartmagazine.com.

BRIDGER-TETON NATIONAL FOREST Lands with Wilderness Potential - This summer, staff, interns and volunteers in the WWA Jackson Office spent many hours collecting data and photographing the roadless areas of the BTNF to document their wilderness potential.  By the end of the fall, we will have surveyed the forest, and we’ll be ready to launch a campaign for NEW wilderness designation.  There are three ways you can get involved and help! 

ONE – We still need more on-the-ground help, so you can volunteer to collect survey data – call the WWA office (307-733-2920) or Forrest McCarthy (307-690-6833) to receive a survey assignment and training in the GPS protocol for collecting the information. All the information is being captured on a Google map which can be viewed on the WWA website.

TWO - Go to Blog Site.  On the Blog site you can add comments, photographs and experiences from BTNF areas that you want to see protected as wilderness. Make sure to leave your name and address so we can add your comments to those that will be sent to the forest service this winter. The more personal, descriptive and persuasive comments are - the higher their impact.

THREE - Join our email list (send your email to nancy@wildwyo.org) and you will be included in future alerts and event announcements. We’re building a campaign for new wilderness designation in the BTNF – JOIN US!

Lori VanBuggenum, Christina Isbell and Ramie Holmquist on one of our
hikes into Rock Creek in the Bighorn Mountains.

► Vast Majority of Americans Believe Protecting Wilderness is Important

► Bridger-Teton Summer Wilderness Survey Volunteers (Current and future)

►  Email we received from one of our hikers to Rock Creek - I just want to thank you both for giving those of us who love wilderness a chance to actually experience it. I've been mostly an armchair wilderness traveler and the hike today exceeded my expectations. There was such great beauty at every turn. I've attached my two favorite photos of the hike. The second one is very Impressionistic, pointilism in nature! Claudia

► Outing spaces are filling up! for our summer outings! It's that time of year! The Wyoming Wilderness Association is pleased to offer our WWA outings into wild and unique places throughout Wyoming this summer. Excursions head into various roadless areas in the Bridger-Teton NF, Shoshone and Bighorn National Forests as well as the Bighorn Basin.

► Bridger-Teton Summer Outings

► Shoshone Summer Outings

Next Hike coming up:
Saturday, September 6
Shoshone National Forest

▲▲▲ Shoshone NF: DuNoir Hike—Aaron Bannon, WWA Governing Council Member. Impressive, rugged ridges and valleys with flowing rivers are the highlight of this proposed wilderness area. The DuNoir was recommended for Wilderness in the Draft Forest Plan in 2007.  Last year, this hike filled fast, so sign up early. Spend a long day hiking a 14-mile loop, crossing the Continental Divide to see panoramic views of the DuNoir and Ramshorn areas. Co-sponsored by the Wyoming Outdoor Council.