2007 Calendar of Events

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Scotchman Peaks Broadwalk
Date: July 26-30, 2007
Location: near Sandpoint, 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. Breakfasts and dinners will be provided each day by our camp cook.

On Friday, we’ll help the Forest Service with a trail maintenance service project. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, Friends of the Scotchman Peaks, the local grassroots wilderness advocacy organization, will guide us on an array of special hikes. Easy, moderate and strenuous guided hikes will be offered each day. In the evenings we’ll have guest speakers tell us why this area deserves permanent protection as wilderness. The line up of speakers includes Phil Hough, Friends of the Scotchmans Peaks, Rick Price of the Idaho Conservation League, and Sarah Lundstrom of the Montana Wilderness Association. Jack Nesbit, local author/speaker will give a presentation on natural and human history of the Scotchmans Peak Area. Gayle Joslin, MT Fish Wildlife and Parks biologist will discuss mountain goats of the area.

Click here for Scotchman Peaks Broadwalk event agenda.

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 (NCA). This proposal 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 Wilderness Study Areas in Doña Ana County. The Citizens’ Proposal also proposes the establishment of a 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 will be 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 completing 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 use jeeps on steroids 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 Doña Ana County proposals.

Donations Needed for Wild for Wilderness Auction
Dates: October 29-Nov.18, 2007

We are looking for donations of adventure trips, vacation stays, outdoor gear and more. If you would like to donate an item to our online auction, please go to www.greatoldbroads.org or e-mail rose@greatoldbroads.org.

Mark your calendars for your holiday shopping or a bit of self-indulgence. Great Old Broads for Wilderness is hosting its third annual Wild for Wilderness Online Auction fundraiser! Here’s your chance to make shopping both easy and meaningful, because 100% of the auction monies raised will be used to support Great Old Broads’ important wilderness advocacy work.