Forwarded by Jane Clark at [log in to unmask] Poster: Vicky Hoover <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Special Outings for Wildlands Preservation! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- WESTERN WILDERNESS NEEDS YOU! This year, the Sierra Club's National Activist Outing Program proudly offers three special trips designed to complement our national conservation priority campaign on Wildlands Protection -- three trips that focus on achieving permanent protection for wildlands in Nevada, Montana, and Utah. If you want to be part of the action on the Sierra Club's wildlands protection campaign, but want to have fun, good exercise, and magnificent scenic surroundings at the same time, one of these trips is for you! Choose from car camping in Nevada, backpacking in Montana, or mountain biking in Utah. Trip 101A: Nevada's Black Rock Desert/High Rock Canyon: May 28 to June 3, 2000. The obscure northwest corner of Nevada has just become a sizzling political hot potato as Nevada's two senators stand on the verge of introducing legislation to establish a National Conservation Area. Will it include wilderness? The area's rugged canyons and broad desert playas offer our camp camping trip a superb "classroom" for a fascinating primer on natural and human history blended with politics. Trip leader Carol Tresner provides two base camps in this scenic, historic but remote part of our country's most mountainous state. You can help put little-known Nevada on the public's wilderness map! With guidance from local wilderness activists, learn how to become a key advocate for this and other major Nevada wildland preservation issues. Price: $445. Trip 105A: Montana Wilderness: how much is enough? August 13-19, 2000. The northern Rockies ecosystem contains some of the country's most extraordinary yet unprotected lands. Guided by leader Roger Grissette, you'll learn about wilderness proposals for unprotected roadless areas and the need for biological corridors to connect criticial protected areas. The Kootenai National Forest and the Flathead National Forest serve as bases for this outing's two separate short backpack jaunts, that show both problems of over-exploitation of forest resourcs and the magnificent, still pristine resources worth fighting for. The famed Yaak River Valley and Swan Valley will be focal high points,connected by a car shuttle, and knowledgeable Montana wilderness activists will help guide. Price: $395. Trip 106A: Book Cliffs Bicycle Odyssey, Utah. Sept. 2 -9, 2000. Leaders Vicky Hoover and Jim Catlin guide this mountain bike trip riding on remote dirt roads that form the boundaries of proposed wilderness in the remote Book Cliffs of eastern Utah. We'll penetrate the imposing ramparts of the dazzling Book Cliffs escarpment to the hinterland. Hhere, abundant wildlife, spaciouis vastness, and an austere rugged beauty make the Book Cliffs one of the most important areas included in the 9.1. million-acre Citizens Wilderness proposal for Utah's Bureau of Land management public lands. Become part of the nationwide campaign for Utah wilderness while enjoying moderate cycling in the East Tavaputs Plateau portion of the Book Cliffs. Lofty plateaus and intricate canyons are the backdrop for our vehicle-supported venture. Price: $425. Sign up today for one of these great opportunities to blend conservation activism with enjoyment of nature in beautiful surroundings. Maybe your Chapter wants a task force on Western Wilderness, and needs you to take the lead by enjoying one of these outings as a start-up action! Some Chapters may be able to help financially if you become an official Chapter issue representative. There are also partial scholarships for applicants for whom cost is a deterrent. For more information, contact Vicky Hoover, activist outing chair, at (415)977-5527 or [log in to unmask] For a trip brochure and application form, or to sign up, call the Sierra Club Outing Department's 24-hour voicemail at (415)977-5522, or visit www.sierraclub.org/outings. Vicky Hoover - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT to [log in to unmask]