Volunteers from Wild Connections and staff from the USFS South Park Ranger District and the Platte Canyon Fire Department set 124 posts at three locations on LaSalle Pass on September 12. A big shout out to these fine folks!
Threatened by proposed mining Now with New Intro by Congresswoman DeGette!
Go on a virtual tour of Grape Creek with with our friends at EcoFlight and introduced by Rep. Diana DeGette. It highlights the illegal proposed mining threats to the Grape Creek Wilderness Study Area and proposed Wilderness. For additional info and actions you can take, go to our Grape Creek page.
Journeys with Wild Connections
President L. B. Johnson signs the Wilderness Act at the White House, September 3, 1964 Photo Wilderness Watch.org . Click above to go to the video.
Celebrate the Birthday of the Wilderness Act with Prose & Poetry A Wild Connections 25th Anniversary Indoor Outing
"Celebrating the 56th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act" with readings by Wild Connections members is onYouTube. Hear from Howard Zahniser, Aldo Leopold, W. E. B DuBois, Richard Nelson, Edward Abbey, Mardy Murie and Terry Tempest Williams, and Wendell Berry.
View of James Peak in the Rain by Samuel Seymour, 1820. Click above to go to the video.
First Known Man’s and Woman’s Ascents of Pikes Peak John Stansfield shares the early adventurers on Pikes Peak. Ute people, Edwin James of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and Julia Archibald coming west with her family are featured.
Celebrate 25!
Explore some of Wild Connections 25 years of history and accomplishments
