USFS Adds 2,100 Acres to Green Mountain National Forest
Facilitated by the Trust for Public Land, the US Forest Service has added 2,100 acres of habitat to the Green Mountain National Forest
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This Land Was Saved for You and Me
New Hardcover by Jeffrey H Ryan follows the arc of the America’s conservation movement.
Episode 2 – Howard Zahniser: A Champion for the Wilderness
Howard Zahniser’s son, Ed, speaks about his father’s impressive efforts to establish and protect American wilderness areas. It was a pleasure to interview him for this episode.
Happy Birthday, George Perkins Marsh!
In 1864, George Perkins Marsh’s book, Man and Nature, placed the concepts of sustainable forestry, sustainable farming and water conservation in the public eye for the first time.
Northeast Wilderness Trust Announces Major Acquisition
6,500 acre Grafton Forest Wilderness adjacent to Appalachian Trail preserves open forest Grafton Forest Wilderness Preserve. ©2022 Northeast Wilderness Trust. The Northeast Wilderness Trust quite fittingly celebrated its 20th Anniversary by announcing the largest single land purchase in its history — 6,045 acres to be known as […]
A quick trip through the bookshelf
In a lead up to the airing of my film about Howard Zahniser, I had a great and wide-ranging chat with Mark Madison about my projects to date.
Ernest Oberholtzer’s expeditions of 1912 and 1963
Ernest Oberholtzer set out to become a renowned writer and explorer. He ended up saving millions of acres of wilderness instead.
It’s Frederick Law Olmsted’s Birthday
Today is the 199th birthday of the father of American landscape architecture and of such great public spaces as New York City’s Central Park, campuses such as Stanford in California and the University of Maine in Orono, and hundreds of other famous parks and grounds. […]
Here we go again …
Writing a book is like running a marathon. When you complete one, you need to rest for a while, then start training again. In this case, I’ve been “training” for this book for several years. My interest in the history of wilderness creation and protection […]
Podcast on MindDogTV
Jeff Ryan recently joined Matt Luppo to discuss America’s hiking trails and the contributions of America’s conservation giants, who foresaw the need to set aside a portion of public lands with the intention of keeping them forever wild.