P3-Vol 2.No3 Dec 96 - International Journal of Wilderness

River, Glacier Peak, Mt. Baker, Noisy-
Diobsud, Alpine Lakes, Henry M. Jackson,
Stephen Mather); (6) Hellgate,
Missoula, Montana (Selway-Bitterroot,
Anaconda-Pintler, Welcome Creek,
Rattlesnake, Cabinet Mts., Bob
Marshall Complex, Lee Metcalf, Gates
of the Mountains, Absaroka-Beartooth,
Red Rock Lakes); and (7) Friends of
the Missions, Condon, Montana (Mission
Mountains).
Affiliation with a local WW chapter
is free. You’ll receive timely alerts
and notice of chapter events, workshops,
field trips, and social gatherings
as well as newsletters and other important
information from our national
headquarters. If you would like to become
a member of one of these chapters,
contact Wilderness Watch, Box
9175, Missoula, MT 59807, USA. Telephone:
(406) 542-2048; e-mail: WILD
WATCH@igc.apc.org.
Wilderness Therapy
Dr. Jennifer Davis-Berman and Dr.
Dene S. Berman offer a thorough examination
of the use of wilderness as a
therapy tool in their book Wilderness
Therapy: Foundations, Theory and Research.
This text is unmatched in the
field for providing a step-by-step outline
for understanding the history, use,
and development of wilderness therapy,
including current research, methods for
programming, and suggestions for interacting
with schools, mental health
organizations, and the courts. Offered
by the American Camping Association,
5000 State Road 67 North,
Martinsville, IN 46151-7902, USA.
Telephone: (317) 342-8456. (Excerpted
from Taproot, a publication of The Coalition
for Education in the Outdoors,
1996.)
Russian Conservation
News Bulletin
Now Available
Russian Conservation News is a quarterly
informational bulletin featuring current
articles by leading conservation
biologists, policy makers, and environ-
mentalists from the former Soviet
Union. Each issue (16 to 30 pages) is
packed with maps, diagrams, photographs,
and news about protected areas,
parks, and nature reserves; conservation
legislation and management;
urgent issues facing the environment
in the former Soviet Union and general
problems and organizations working
to solve them; conservation finance,
funding priorities, and achievements;
and endangered species and ecosystems.
One year subscription prices (U.S.$):
Student $20, Individual $25, Organization
$35. To subscribe write, Russian
Conservation News, PEEC/RCN,
R.R. 2 Box 1010, Dingmans Ferry, PA
18328, USA.
Italian Wilderness
Society News
The Italian Wilderness Society has a
new center. Please note the new address:
Via Augusto Bonetti n^42 -
17010 Murialdo (SV), Italy. Telephone/
Fax: 0863-949322.
Student Ecojournal
Students at the Paul Revere Middle
School in Houston are going nationwide
with the production and distribution
of their environmental science
journal Earth Focus. Submissions are
encouraged and the journal will pay
for those reports and articles it is able
to publish. Subscriptions are $9 for two
issues/year from: Earth Focus, Paul
Revere Middle School, 10502 Briar
Forest, Houston, TX 77402, USA. (Excerpted
from Taproot, a publication of
The Coalition for Education in the
Outdoors, 1996.)
Wilderness Watch Facilitates
Private Management
Wilderness Watch (WW), a national
nonprofit citizen organization headquartered
in Missoula, Montana,
planned a cost-share agreement with
the U.S. Forest Service (FS) to help
keep two rangers in the Mission
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Mountains Wilderness throughout the
1996 season.
According to Janet Rose, executive
director of WW, “Friends of the Mission
Wilderness Watch Chapter raised
$12,000 to match FS funding to continue
patrols, trail maintenance, and
other management in the Mission
Mountains Wilderness.”
IJW applauds this help by WW in
times of downsizing and cutbacks that
are severely impacting wilderness management.
Bulletin Board
Effectiveness Analyzed
David Cole at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute, USA, reports
results from experimenting with
means of increasing the effectiveness
of bulletin boards as a low-impact communication
medium in the Selway-
Bitterroot Wilderness. Findings include:
(1) hikers’ knowledge of recommended
practices was increased by posting messages;
(2) horse users seldom gave any
attention to messages on bulletin
boards; (3) two messages were about
all that hikers could absorb; and (4)
including a banner that said “please take
the time to read these messages”
doubled the amount of time visitors
spent looking at the messages. For more
information contact e-mail: d.cole@
bigsky.net.
Mollie Beattie Wilderness
Area Act of 1996
On June 27, 1996, Mollie Beattie, director
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
died after a year-long battle with
brain cancer. As a deserving tribute to
Mollie, President Clinton signed into
law S.1899, the Mollie Beattie Wilderness
Area Act on July 26. Under this
legislation, Mollie Beattie’s name will
be forever associated with one of the
most wild and beautiful places on this
planet—the Brooks Range of Alaska’s
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Mollie was an advocate and ardent
supporter of our nation’s wilderness
heritage.