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Wilderness guru Doug Scott
Author, Historian, Advocate
Several years ago, in the earlier stages of the Wild Mon campaign,
West Virginia was treated to a series of discussions and
presentations by Doug Scott, renowned author and one of the foremost
experts on Wilderness policy in the U.S.
Now, with his latest
book,
Our Wilderness,
hot off the press, Doug returns to the Mountain State for a special
event at the WVU College of Law in Morgantown, as well as Sierra
Fest near Charleston, hosted by the West Virginia Chapter of the
Sierra Club. Doug will speak about citizen efforts to protect
public lands through the National Wilderness Preservation System,
and he will share passages from his new book.
Doug Scott, Policy Director of the Campaign for America’s
Wilderness, is one of the nation’s leading wilderness historians and
experts on the U.S. wilderness movement. He has been involved in
the passage of most major wilderness protection laws in the last 40
years, including the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (1975), Endangered
American Wilderness Act (1978),
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980), and the
newest - the Omnibus Public Land Management Act (2009) - which
protected more than two million acres across nine states.
He helped shape strategy and led campaigns at The Wilderness Society
and the Sierra Club (where he served as national Conservation
Director and Associate Executive Director).
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Join Doug at the following West
Virginia events:
Morgantown:
Thursday, October 8 at 7 p.m.
Davis Gallery, WVU College of Law
Click here
to download poster
Charleston area:
Saturday, October 10 at 6 p.m.
Camp Virgil Tate
Click here for Sierra Fest information and registration
For more information, contact Mike Costello at
[email protected]
or at 304-437-1082. |
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