ABOUT THE EVENT ~ After five successful years, our annual event will celebrate National Trails Day with a 6-mile hike in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Woodland Lake Park), a 5K non-competitive walk, a 1-mile naturalist-guided nature walk on improved Nature Center . . . → Read More: Walk in the Woods]]>

ABOUT THE EVENT ~ After five successful years, our annual event will celebrate National Trails Day with a 6-mile hike in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Woodland Lake Park), a 5K non-competitive walk, a 1-mile naturalist-guided nature walk on improved Nature Center trails, and a geocaching experience! The first 200 to register will receive a free Walk for the Woods T-shirt, a free lunch, door prize chance (for walkers only), plus a concert by the Lakesiders, and browse displays from local businesses, sponsors, and groups offering activities in the area.

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Aldo Leopold seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938.

Posted by: Tiffany Holloway, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

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Aldo Leopold seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in
northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938.

Posted by: Tiffany Holloway, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

And the Emmy goes to …

The U.S. Forest Service, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and the Center for Humans and Nature have partnered to produce the documentary “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time.”

The film recently received a regional Emmy® award for Best Historical Documentary at the 54th annual Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The film is airing on public television in Wisconsin, and will be distributed nationally starting in April 2013.   Since its premiere in February 2011, it has screened at more than 2,000 venues in the United States and around the world.

“This prestigious recognition is an honor because it recognizes the time and talent invested by the project team, but also because it affirms the power and relevance of Leopold's vision,” said Buddy Huffaker, executive producer of “Green Fire” and president of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

Leopold, who died in 1948, helped to shape modern conservation science, policy, and ethics.  “Green Fire” explores Leopold’s life and career, and also his contemporary influence. “Green Fire” is the first feature-length documentary about the conservationist.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a professional service organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television. It is best known for its Daytime and Primetime Emmys, but also recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy® Awards for News & Documentary, Sports, Daytime Entertainment, Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment, Public & Community Service, Technology & Engineering, and Business & Financial Reporting.

“This is a significant milestone on the path to a more ethical relationship between people and land. We were thrilled the film is getting well-deserved attention,” said Rett Nelson, vice-chair of the Aldo Leopold Foundation Board of Directors.

Leopold is best known for “A Sand County Almanac,” a collection of essays published in 1949, a year after his death. Since its publication, more than two million copies have been sold.  The concluding essay, titled “The Land Ethic,” defined a new relationship between people and nature and set the stage for the modern environmental movement.

“As a society, we are just now beginning to realize the depth of Leopold’s work and thinking,” said Mike Dombeck, former chief Forest Service, professor of Global Environmental Management University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a University of Wisconsin System Fellow of Global Conservation.

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Deer have been a blight on suburbia for a while now, munching their way through tract-housing gardens and making some highways extremely dangerous for motorists, as their . . . → Read More: Study: We’re Screwed Without Wolves and Bears]]>

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A wolf in Yellowstone Oregon State University

Deer have been a blight on suburbia for a while now, munching their way through tract-housing gardens and making some highways extremely dangerous for motorists, as their populations have exploded. (In DC, where they live in abundant numbers in the city's biggest park, Rock Creek Park, they're known by neighbors as rats with antlers.) Deer are also radically changing places like the forests of the Adirondacks by devouring young tree shoots from the storied maples and leaving nothing but beech. But a new study finds that it's not just deer populations that are wreaking havoc on North American ecosystems. It's all of the large mammals that graze on plants.

Moose, elk, and deer populations are at historic highs, according to an extensive review by scientists at Oregon State University. And they're taking their toll on young trees, reducing biodiversity of forests and contributing to climate change as a result. The leading cause of the disrupted ecosystems is the disappearance of the predators, namely wolves and bears. Researchers found that large mammal densities were six times higher in areas without wolves than in those with them. 

"These issues do not just affect the United States and a few national parks," said William Ripple, an OSU professor of forestry and lead author of the study, in a statement. "The data from Canada, Alaska, the Yukon, Northern Europe and Asia are all showing similar results. There's consistent evidence that large predators help keep populations of large herbivores in check, with positive effects on ecosystem health.

In view of the current controversy over the family of . . . → Read More: Creator of the Olaus J. Murie Award bemoans the degeneration of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation]]> David Stalling worked for Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for a number of years. For 10 years he was conservation editor of Bugle, their magazine. He was also President for two terms of the Montana Wildlife Federation and presently is a grassroots organizer for Trout Unlimited.

In view of the current controversy over the family of Olaus J. Murie revoking the use of the Murie name by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation due to their adoption of a strident anti-wolf policy, today Stalling issued a strong, detailed rebuke to the organization he used to love.

There is little doubt that the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has been transformed. Obviously there will be those who say it is better now that it is a more single purpose organization devoted to elk hunting alone without worry about other kinds of wildlife or unpleasant disputes over protecting habitat. It appears too that more money can be made by appealing to the lowest common denominator.

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