WILDLANDS CONNECTION

FALL2014

By Dave Foreman

2014 IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act, the strongest and most visionary step in history for keeping some lands free of Man’s domination and leaving them as wild neighborhoods for the wild things who dwell in them. Over these fifty years, the acreage of federal land in the United States set aside in the National Wilderness Preservation System has grown from some 9 million to over 109 million. Folks from all nooks of America have worked selflessly to gain this win for wild things. The Wilderness Act and its sister law for wild things—the Endangered Species Act—stand with the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as a great gift from the United States to the world.

The civilized world’s greatest welcoming for self-willed land came in the 1964 Wilderness Act in the United States. This legislation was the end of eight years of long listening, coaxing, and rewrites in Congress and in public hearings across the nation. Hikers, horse-packers, canoeists, hunters, anglers, climbers, birders, Nature lovers, biologists and even garden

clubs boosted it. The Wilderness Society’s man in Washington, Howard Zahniser, wrote the first bill in 1956 and the later sixty-five drafts. His literary skill gave the Act the uplifting words and phrases that rest so cozily in our minds for recall.

As we make merry for the Wilderness Act, let us keep the hard truth in the forefront: Protected areas, the tougher the better, are the best way to keep and hand on the Tree of Life and its ongoing evolution into the eternity of tomorrow. They are also the best way to rekindle our love for the wild from which Man sprang and to keep us all aware that we need a taste of wildness to stay healthy in our minds, bodies and societies.

Editor’s note: The National Wilderness Conference will be held October 15–19, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will be the first national gathering of the wilderness community in 25 years. Wildlands Network and Rewilding Institute Founder Dave Foreman will be giving the keynote address during the “Final Inspiration for the Future of Wilderness” session.

50th Anniversary Celebrates Self-Willed Land

PHOTO: JIM BRIDGER WILDERNESS, WYOMING

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I HAVE BECOME quite accustomed to answering the question, “What does Wildlands Network do?” Our long history of connecting and addressing threats to our wild and critical landscapes in North America is always the starting point. However, conveying the depth and breadth of our efforts takes a good while given the remarkable collective impact of our work. And by our collective impact, I refer to what you—our loyal supporters—and we, the Wildlands Network board and staff, get done when we work together. The following examples illustrate what your support allows Wildlands Network to accomplish in the arenas of science, policy, community outreach and networking to realize our “grand scale” vision:

National Success➤ Implementing connectivity provisions into national forest

plans: Ready to Launch! We are leading the charge to assist conservationists and the forest service to craft national forest plans that appropriately implement the new connectivity provisions, which resulted from the hard work of our policy coalition.

Eastern Wildway Success➤ Phase One of connectivity planning for the critical Southeast

Atlantic region of the U.S. longleaf pine ecosystems: Completed! Two different habitat connectivity analyses, including climate adaptation modeling, will now form the basis of Phase Two of regional large-landscape planning for the area.

➤ Protection efforts for the Northeast Cape Fear River basin as a major wildlife corridor in North Carolina: Now underway! Through camera traps and mapping, we are assisting local groups in documenting the importance of this critical river corridor to prevent the devastating impact of a proposed Titan Cement plant expansion. Nearby, we are leading the charge to save the Hoffman state forest, one of the largest unfragmented forests in North Carolina’s piedmont region and a critical link for north-south connectivity in the East. (See Ron Sutherland’s article on page 3.)

➤ Eastern predator program: Launched! We are now actively advocating to protect the Carolina red wolf, the eastern

cougar and the gray wolf. Combining science, law and citizen organizing, we are working hard to repair our eastern ecosystems by returning apex predators to the landscape.

Western Wildway Success➤ Saving thick-billed parrots, jaguars and ocelots: 14th year

and counting! Our work with local ejidos (community-based farms) in northern Mexico protects more than 10,000 acres of habitat annually through a conservation lease in lieu of logging.

➤ 20 new priority wildlife corridors identified along the Western Wildway! Through our leadership of the 22-member Western Wildway Network, we have identified 20 priority wildlife corridors that are critical to our wildlife’s ability to adapt to climate change and are currently the focus of our implementation strategies.

➤ Western Landowners Alliance: Launched and growing! Today this independent community of private landowners collectively manages more than 18 million acres of private lands. This landscape is actively protected and restored, and the role of predators like the gray wolf is understood and accepted. Working together, we provide a space for conversations between rural landowners and conservation groups that lead to common ground.

Our connected landscapes do matter to wide-ranging animals. Grizzly bears are on the move, and isolated populations

in the northern Rockies are closer together than any time in the past 80 years. Wolverines are moving back into the North Cascades. Wolves are overcoming blind hatred to reclaim territory in Oregon and Northern California. And there is hope for restoring cougars and even wolves to the north woods of New England.

“How does Wildlands Network do its work?” is yet another frequently asked question. As you know, protecting nature is not a short-term, temporary endeavor; it takes constant vigilance and effort to inspire more people to do the right thing. Our Fall Fundraising Campaign, now underway, is a critical component to moving our work forward. It’s also our mutual opportunity to “check in.” This phone-a-thon is your “town hall,” an opportunity for you to ask questions and tell us how we are doing. And for us, it is our opportunity to listen and to personally express our deepest gratitude and thanks. We look forward to chatting, and we promise not to take up much of your valuable time. Thank you for your steadfast and urgently needed support.

GREG COSTELLO NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR

Protecting nature is not a short-term, temporary endeavor; it takes constant vigilance and effort to inspire more people to do the right thing.

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RON SUTHERLAND EASTERN WILDWAY FOCUS

A LOVER OF TAKING AERIAL PHOTOS, I recently hit the jackpot: flying in a Cessna, just 1500 feet off the ground and offering a perspective on wildlife habitats that was mind-boggling. This perspective was what we were after when we set out to document the southern coastline of North Carolina one early morning this past spring.

My flight crew included J. Henry Fair, a WN supporter and professional aerial photographer (www.jhenryfair.com), and Doug Oakley, our stellar SouthWings pilot. Our mission was to document the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest and the NE Cape Fear River corridor, both critical connectivity areas for the Eastern Wildway.

Wildlands Network is coordinating a vigorous campaign to convince NC State University not to sell Hofmann forest to an out-of-state corn farmer/developer. One of the challenges has been that access to the land has been gated off in preparation for the attempted sale. Aerials would add a timely perspective.

A bit further south, the Northeast Cape Fear River wraps around the outskirts of the City of Wilmington, NC forming a natural wildlife corridor between the Holly Shelter Gamelands and the Green Swamp. The corridor is, however, in serious jeopardy due to Wilmington’s urban growth and the looming threat of a massive cement plant expansion. Working with local partners and donors, we installed a series of wildlife cameras along the river to document its importance. But showing the landscape in its entirety was critical for sharing the corridor’s stories with the public.

From the vibrating plane and against the wind rushing in through the open window, Henry shot rapid-fire pictures out the starboard window while I frantically took GPS points with one hand and took my own pictures with the other.

From the air, the NE Cape Fear River corridor looks relatively intact, with the

exception of the existing cement and chromium mines on the south side. It’s hard to image the terrible size and scope of the proposed Titan cement mine that, if approved, will essentially destroy the entire south side of the River.

We followed the river upstream, through the expansive wilds of Holly Shelter Gamelands to the Hofmann Forest. It has been managed intensively as a pine plantation for 80 years, with proceeds supporting the Natural Resources program at NC State University. What makes Hofmann special, though, is its sheer scale of emptiness. It is so large that from 1500 feet you can’t really see its end. In fact, we flew around the forest for nearly an hour and saw not a single truck or person.

We also flew along a small stretch of Highway 17 where the NC DOT is, in fact, planning on installing wildlife bridges, but only if Hofmann remains intact. On the way back to the jetport, we flew over Orton Plantation where Louis Bacon, a WN philanthropist, is busy restoring it to high quality wildlife habitat.

April’s soft light on hardwood forests made them glow in the brilliant lime green color of freshly budded leaves. The lighter hardwood swamps contrasted beautifully with darker patches of evergreen pine forest here and there. In much the same way, the swaths of development, roads and industrial sites were offset by a lot of untrammeled habitat left to connect. If we act urgently, I have great hope for conserving eastern North Carolina.

Aerial Adventures

The White Oak River meanders its way to meet the Atlantic Ocean, near Swansboro, North Carolina. Hofmann Forest serves as the primary headwaters for this beautiful river.

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OFTEN THE WILDLANDS NETWORK LOGO leaves people asking for a sign of the predators we are here to protect. Yet, the healthy ecosystems they yield—complete with songbirds and grasslands—speak their presence. Thus this image became our logo years ago. As a tribute to the four-legged predators I work to return to the East, I wax about their benefactor, the songbird.

By spring in upstate New York, all our songbirds have returned, many of them having spent the last six or seven months in Central or South America. Migratory songbirds are less bountiful than they were decades ago, for reasons not entirely understood but almost certainly including fragmentation of the forests here on their breeding grounds and in their Neotropical winter homes. The diminishment of songbird populations, the Silent Spring Rachel Carson warned of half a century ago, is a tragedy that our generation can reverse, through preserving and reconnecting wildlands, reducing pollution and restoring apex predators.

If we look carefully around our homes in the Eastern Deciduous Forest biome, we see the consequences of cutting apart natural habitats, consequences that weigh especially on forest-nesting songbirds. Some biologists call these “edge effects,” and they include: 1) invasions by exotic species; 2) extermination of top carnivores like cougar and wolves, which eat or chase away smaller predators but do not trouble songbirds; 3) consequent proliferation of opportunistic predators, like house cats and skunks, which do prey on birds and their eggs; 4) colonization of forest edges by cowbirds, which are brood parasites (laying their eggs in nests of smaller birds); and 5) altered micro-climates (forest edges being susceptible to desiccation, fire and wind-throw).

Happier, more natural mysteries continue to surround songbirds, though: How do they migrate thousands of miles each spring and autumn between tropical rainforest and temperate deciduous forest? (Present hypotheses credit birds’ uncanny senses of direction, magnetism and ability to navigate by the stars.) How do they fly so far so efficiently? (I probably burn more calories riding from town to my cabin than a warbler burns flying from the Adirondacks to Central America.) Where do they hide their nests? (Many nest on leafy ground or in the forest understory, hence their

vulnerability to opportunistic meso-predators.) What do they eat? (Many dine primarily on insects, making them beneficial to us not only for their music but also for keeping “pest” populations in check.) Maybe most vexing for birders—where is the maker of that avian melody?! (Whether it’s an evolutionary adaptation on the birds’ part, or just our inferior hearing, or both, songbirds are usually hard to locate, after leaf-out in May, even when their songs are near and clear).

My family so enjoys seeing and hearing songbirds, we’re protecting our hundred acres of Adirondack forest as a wildlife sanctuary and as part of a wildlife corridor locally known as Split Rock Wildway. Rewards this past spring included winter wrens bubbling out that most joyful of tiny birds’ songs; scarlet tanagers flashing red between tall hardwoods and singing a blues-style robin’s song; blackburnian warblers revealing spots of blaze orange and whistling high out of sight; rose-breasted grosbeaks (pictured) warbling with a liquid clarity that allows us to spot its hot pink chest; and those master flutists, wood and hermit thrush and veery, sounding like the most sonorous solo vocalists you seldom see.

Songbird Mysteries

JOHN DAVIS CARNIVORE TRACKS

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ON MY FIRST DAY OF WORK as Wildlands Network’s new communications director back in the late summer of 1998, my nervousness must have shown. I had just been introduced to Michael Soulé, who had dropped by our Tucson office on a fundraising trip from his home in Paonia, Colorado. Although I had been given notice of his stature as our co-founder and board president, I had pitifully little comprehension of his enormous vision for conservation.

Sitting across from Michael at our tiny conference room lunch table, I got my marching orders. “You’ll need a miracle to get the collaboration among head-strong conservationists that we need to be successful. I hope you’re up to the task,” he said, obviously noticing the beads of sweat on my forehead, which could have come from the 107-degree heat reaching inward from the window, but did not. “You may be a good communicator,” he panned, “but what you have to become is a good networker.”

Eventually, Soulé’s collaborative “miracle” actually happened. Whether due in part to my own hard-earned luck or the simple, desperate realization among far-flung conservation groups that working in isolation isolates their work, is not the point. But what finally occurred a few years later on a crisp spring day in the high country near Payson, Arizona certainly is.

I talked a rag-tag crew of conservationists representing twelve western habitat protection organizations into convening in Payson for a “landscape connectivity meeting.” The agenda was basic. We gathered around a large North American map adorned with the boundary of a massively configured wildlife corridor that Soulé and his co-founder colleague, Dave Foreman, had identified and aptly named the “Spine of the Continent.”

Upon viewing the 6,000-mile-long Western Wildway, stretching from northeastern Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains north along the Rockies and associated ranges through Canada to Alaska’s Brooks Range, it was clear this was one of the most ambitious habitat conservation efforts to date. Inspired by such a bold and audacious concept and owning a critical “piece of that puzzle,” our hoped-for partners took the bait, and the Western Wildway Network (WWN) was born.

Since those days, the WWN has grown to 22 member organizations and coalitions, representing dozens of additional collaborating groups. But despite its growth, maintaining member participation by those struggling for their financial lives and competing for limited funding remains the biggest challenge facing this community. As network leader, we’re addressing this

challenge by devising strategies and campaigns that direct funding to highlighted partner organizations, provide centralized services that alleviate the need for duplication of those services by each member, and create outreach campaigns, publicity and mapping.

Filling in the “gaps” in the Spine of the Continent where conservation was hamstrung for myriad reasons also surfaced as a critical implementation need. A great example is the Central Colorado Plateau, the region including nearly all of southeastern Utah’s world-class monuments, parks and recreation areas. Its multiple protection proposals were stymied. Getting all that region’s organizations to collaborate resembled working a Rubik’s Cube. But in the end, a stalwart group that once seemed adversarial came together to form the Colorado Plateau Conservation Network, which now meets with regularity and is planning a full-scale communications campaign with a goal of designating wolf corridors, expanding Canyonlands National Park with a

surrounding national monument, and pressing forward to finally achieve long-sought-after Red Rocks Wilderness protections.

Despite setbacks, the success “miracles” of the Western Wildway Network—the small but connected puzzle pieces laid on the table by regional members—continue to mount in an amazing fashion. During the past several years, the blocks of protected habitat along the Spine of the Continent have gotten closer together. Landscape connectivity across the Spine of the Continent is marching forward, thanks in no small part to the fearless, tireless, passionate individuals that are the Western Wildway Network, folks who inspire me daily.

The Western Wildway Network “Miracle”

KIM VACARIU WESTERN WILDWAY FOCUS

One of the species the Western Wildlway Network works to protect is the grizzly bear. In North America, grizzly bears are found in western Canada, Alaska, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, with (possibly) a small population in Washington.

On May 17, 2014, the world lost 89-year-old Robert TenBroeck Stevens, a wonderful conservation hero and Wildlands Network supporter, from Helena, Montana. His love of nature and stewardship of the earth was driven by his concern for the children of the future, including his daughters Sara Solaimanian and Melanie Read.

Bob’s love of nature was stirred by his wife Hope’s father, Louis Bromfield and his beautifully restored Ohio Malabar Farm (www.malabarfarm.org). He went on to teach geography at a small private school in Leesburg, Virginia and eventually moved

to Bozeman, Montana where he started his own travel agency. After putting their land into a conservation easement, Bob and Hope transformed it into an off-the-grid home. They pursued sustainable forestry projects, noxious weed removal and installed wildlife friendly fencing in order to live with predators.

The Stevens family runs the Fanwood Foundation responsible for funding critical wildlife conservation and landscape connectivity projects in the West. Tracey Butcher, Outreach Director for Wildlands Network speaks for the board and staff, “Bob’s generosity and kindness made the planet a better place; his smile lit up a room. The world will not be the same, and he will be deeply missed.”

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SUSAN HOLMES CONNECTING WITH POLICY

WORKING ON CONSERVATION issues in Washington, DC can get downright depressing—especially in the summer time. As I write this, July’s temperatures and humidity are climbing and many of our elected officials are up to the usual nonsense. In the House of Representatives, the Natural Resources Committee Chair Doc Hastings is pushing four bills that would weaken the Endangered Species Act. In the Senate, the so-called “Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014” would roll back provisions in the National Environmental Policy Act, undermine the Wilderness Act and hamper any efforts to regulate lead ammunition. Meanwhile, bills that would protect wildlife, wildlife corridors and core habitat areas sit languishing in committees. Recently, the Center for Western Priorities looked at 10 major conservation opportunities that would protect places like the California Desert and the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains in Idaho. They found that during the last 10 years there have been 52 bills introduced to protect them—many of them bi-partisan—and they all have gone nowhere.

Despite this doom and gloom, I was still happy to sweat it out this summer in DC. Why? National Monuments. Although this Administration has been late to the table when it comes to protecting wildlands and species, Obama’s recent efforts to protect lands under the Antiquities Act are getting me excited. So far, the administration has designated 11 National Monuments. The first ten were generally small with broad bi-partisan and community support including places like the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad in Maryland and the San Juan Islands in Washington State. But in May, the

Administration declared the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks region of New Mexico a national monument and protected nearly another 500,000 acres of land in the southern part of the state. Then in June, it released a proposal to create a new marine national monument that would expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 87,000 square miles to nearly 782,000 square miles adjacent to seven islands and atolls controlled by the United States. Now we’re talking!

While folks agree any future monument designations of scale are likely to be a harder political lift for the Administration and may need to wait until after the mid-term elections or the end of the term, there are a number that have solid support. These represent important pieces of the Western Wildway puzzle and critical connections for wildlife. In the Yellowstone to Yukon region, the 592,000 acres Boulder White-Cloud proposed monument north of Ketchum Idaho is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the Rockies. Politically, Representative Mike Simpson and Senator Crapo have been behind legislation to protect much of this area in the past, and sportsmen are coming together to show support as well. Further down the Spine of the Continent are two more big opportunities—the proposed Greater Canyonlands National Monument and proposed Grand Canyon Watershed, both featured in the Spring 2014 Wildlands Connection.

I will continue to dream these precious places will become national monuments for my children to enjoy. I will be hitting Capitol Hill in the name of their designations. And maybe next summer I will be hiking in one of them.

Monumental Hope for Large-scale Land Protection

Remembering Bob TenBroeck Stevens

FROM ISLAND PRESSTime to slow down and keep company with three new books from Island Press! What could be more relevant than water, climate change and forests? Pragmatic, compelling and even funny, these authors provide the information we all need to inform our actions and our vote. Brian Richter argues in Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability that for

water plans to be durable and effective, they must be informed by the culture, economics and varied needs of affected community members. Climate change is no laughing matter—but maybe it should be. In The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, Grady Klein and “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman have created the funniest overview of climate science, predictions and policy that you’ll ever read. Joe Landsberg and Richard Waring’s Forests in Our

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WILD IMAGINATION

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NEW WORKS IN ART, MEDIA AND CULTURE

YOUR WILD VIDEO FIXvimeo.com/65923702 Great lessons for living with predators in North America are found in Pride, an award-winning short film that explores the relationship between residents of Gujarat, India and the last remaining population of Asiatic Lions in the world. Rural communities there are working with the government to secure this top predator’s place in the ecosystem.

vimeo.com/87954186 Filmmaker Ed George takes us on a short music video tour of TrekWest, along the spectacular Western Wildway. We are nearing our financial goal to produce a Western Wildway film with Ed’s amazing footage. To help make it happen, please donate at www.wildlandsnetwork.org or send a check, and clearly note Ed George Film.

FEATURE ARTISTWhen Europeans settled eastern North America in the late 1500’s, passenger pigeons numbered as high as six billion, comprising an astounding 40% of the continent’s total avian life. A few decades of reckless overhunting and deforestation in the late 1800’s brought the world’s largest-ever bird population to zero.

Marc Schlossman is a prolific photographer for whom the visual world is a means to create change. His latest work in progress (photo folio and film) is on endangered and extinct species as seen in the collection in the Field Museum in Chicago. Most recently, he focused on filming the passenger pigeon collection. Of particular interest was Martha, the last passenger pigeon on Earth (shown here). This year marks the 100th anniversary of her death at the Cincinnati Zoo, hers being the only species for which we know the exact date of extinction.

According to Marc, “As mass extinction accelerates, museum collections are the last and only places to see vanished species. They are critically important in researching and conserving life on Earth. Highlighting this work improves comprehension of the underlying issues.” Marc lives in London with his family and received a BS in wildlife biology from the University of Maine at Orono. His amazing works, spanning portraits, photo journalism and personal projects, can be seen at www.marcschlossman.com.

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