| Wildlands Project Co-Founder
Dave Foreman to Speak at Penn State STATE COLLEGE - Dave
Foreman, publisher of "Wild Earth" magazine and author of such
books as "The Big Outside" and "The Lobo Outback Funeral
Home," will give the keynote address at the second Pennsylvania
Wildlands Conference Feb. 1 at the Penn Stater Conference Center here.
(Note: "no formal affiliation" with The Wildlands Project, although their every word idolizes everything and everyone connected to TWP -- why wouldn't they formally 'marry' TWP, too? For those readers not in PA, please don't wax complacent: this IS in YOUR backyard, too, whether you are yet aware of it, or not. In their newsletter, PWRP has two 'articles' titled: "New studies show corridors work" and "Scientific standards for a regional wildlands plan," neither of which ever identifies any actual named, verified study -- and who funded the study/ies -- or ever provides other than a 'shell game' of words to entice the reader into involvement. At no time is the recruit ever asked to consider that the agenda is to remove over 90 percent of the people from the earth -- http://www.vhemt.org -- and that the recruit is considered to be one of those expendable ones.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dave Bonta, PA Wildlands Recovery Project, Media and Outreach, 814-684-3113 bontasaurus@yahoo.com Alan Gregory, PA Wildlands Recovery Project, President, 1-800-843-6686 x 282 alangregory@standardspeaker.com This day-long event, entitled "PA Wildlands: Prospects for Recovery and Rewilding," is sponsored by the newly formed Pennsylvania Wildlands Recovery Project (PWRP), with financial support from Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation and Development and the William Penn Foundation. Alan Gregory, president of PWRP, called Foreman "a conservation icon." "He's been in the forefront of every major conservation movement for the last 30 years," Gregory said. Foreman once served as a field representative for The Wilderness Society and was named by the National Audubon Society as one of the 20th century's 100 most influential conservationists. In 1991, Foreman helped found the Wildlands Project (TWP), based upon the insights and models of conservation biology and dedicated to building a continent-wide, interlocking system of ecological reserves, also known as wildlands. His talk on Saturday will center on his decade-long involvement with the crafting of the first regional wildlands network proposal, the Sky Islands Plan, which encompasses New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico. Other speakers at the conference include Conrad Reining, Northeastern Coordinator for TWP; Chris Bolgiano, author of "Mountain Lion: An Unnatural History of Pumas and People" and vice-president of the Eastern Cougar Foundation; Susan Hagood, wildlife specialist for the Humane Society of the U.S. and an expert on the construction of highway overpasses and underpasses for migrating wildlife; and Steve Hoffman, bird conservation director for Audubon Pennsylvania. Clare Billet of The Natural Lands Trust, Bob Degroot, Maryland Alliance for Greenway Improvement and Conservation, and Robert Lonsdorf, Brandywine Conservancy, will discuss specific strategies for wildlands recovery. And Ed Perry, recently retired supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pennsylvania Field Office in State College and a conservation hero to many for his untiring efforts on behalf of wild nature, will address the fragmentation of habitat, a major impediment to fish and wildlife conservation efforts in Pennsylvania and many other states. PWRP is a newly formed, non-profit organization based in State College with no formal affiliation with the Wildlands Project. Its Web site ( http://www.wildpennsylvania.org ) characterizes the group's mission this way: "To advocate, design and implement the first, comprehensive wildlands network proposal for Pennsylvania-a long-range plan to connect our wildlands with each other and with protected areas in neighboring states." As part of that mission, PWRP works with private landowners, land trusts and conservancies, and individuals who understand that a vibrant economy goes hand in hand with healthy fish and wildlife populations and the conservation of our natural heritage. More information on the conference, including registration, is available: http://www.wildpennsylvania.org/conference.htm http://www.wildpennsylvania.org/press/030125.htm Introducing the Pennsylvania Wildlands Recovery Project (PWRP) http://www.wildpennsylvania.org/pwrp.htm Their newsletter (please take the time to read it; the scope is spelled out) is here: http://www.wildpennsylvania.org/newsletter.htm |