2007 Calendar of Events

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Recapture Utah! Monitoring Event
Date: April 25-30, 2007
Location: near Blanding, UT
Cost: $50 (space is limited to 24 participants)
Broads want to Recapture Utah, (or at least parts of it!) for quiet users and the critters. Come help gather data to support our efforts to document ORV use/abuse while enjoying some great hiking. We'll base camp on Cedar Mesa near spectacular Arch Canyon and small teams will hike daily in assigned areas while documenting impacts from motorized recreation. This part of Utah is home to the San Juan River, Grand Gulch Primitive Area, Comb Ridge, the Abajos Mountains, Indian Creek, Canyonlands, numerous Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) and archeological sites.

Participants will be trained to use a GPS, digital camera and the Broads Healthy Lands Project monitoring form to collect information. GPS units and digital cameras will be provided for those who need them. We plan on four full days of monitoring. A camp cook will prepare breakfasts and dinners so we can focus on being in the field. Evenings will include informative speakers from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the newly formed Canyon Country Heritage Association. Folks can plan to come early to explore the area or plan to stay and play afterwards. There are not many places to camp and hike finer than southern Utah in the springtime!

Click here for more information on the Recapture Utah! Campaign.

Scotchman's Peak Broadwalk
Dates: July 26-30, 2007
Location: near Sand Point, ID
Cost: $125 tent campers, $135 RV parking , or $190 for bed in shared room bunkhouse. 
This is a classic Broadwalk where we’ll learn about and walk in an area proposed for wilderness designation. We'll spend four nights/three full days learning about a little known chunk of wild country in the Cabinet Mountains that straddles the Idaho/Montana state line—the 88,000 acre Scotchman's Peak roadless area.  We are basing out of the Clark Fork Field Campus (www.clarkforkfieldcampus.com), where we’ll have a choice of accommodations and an indoor dining/meeting room where we can avoid bad weather and mosquitoes. Yummy breakfasts and dinners will be provided each day by our camp cook. Folks from the Friends of the Scotchman Peaks, the local grassroots wilderness advocacy organization, will guide us on an array of special hikes and tell us why this area deserves permanent protection as wilderness.  We'll help the Forest Service with a service project and hear from folks from both Idaho and Montana on wilderness efforts in those states.  There is a groundswell of support for wilderness designation of the Scotchman’s and Broads wants to add to it.

Click here for more information about the Scotchman Peaks and why it should be protected.

Doña Ana Broadwalk
Dates: October 11-15, 2007
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Cost: $110
Another classic Broadwalk, this time in southern New Mexico in support of the The Doña Ana County Citizens' Proposed Wilderness and National Conservation Area which is a plan by conservationists, sportsmen, and community leaders to designate wilderness in Broad Canyon and the East Potrillo Mountains, as well as for the existing eight WSAs in Doña Ana County. The Citizens’ Proposal also proposes the establishment of a National Conservation Area (NCA) that protects the entire Organ/Franklin Mountain Recreation Area, and specifically protects parts of the Organ, Tortugas, San Andres, and Doña Ana Mountains from development. We are camping in a group campsite at the BLM’s Aquirre Springs Campground near San Augustine Pass (elevation 5700’). Warm days and cool nights should make for perfect camping weather. We’ll have a variety of knowledgeable speakers from the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, BLM, and local communities tell us about the wilderness efforts. We plan on a BLM service project as well.

There will be a variety of hikes into proposed wilderness areas led by local advocates.  Especially compelling is the fact that one of the contentious areas in this proposal is a beautiful canyon called Broad Canyon that ORV enthusiasts like to rock crawl up. Broads advocating for protection of Broad Canyon should get the media’s attention. Come add your voice to those calling for wilderness designation of this area.

Click here for more information on the Dona Ana County proposals.