Wilderness Crusader Doug Scott to speak at Rock/Creek

Legendary Wilderness Crusader Doug Scott to speak at Rock/Creek

National Wilderness Historian Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Wilderness Act With New Book, Urges Local Citizens to Help Leave a Natural Legacy

Who: Doug Scott, author and Policy Director, Campaign for America’s Wilderness

What: Book discussion and signing opportunity with Doug Scott

Where: Rock/Creek at Two North Shore, 301 Manufacturers Rd. St. 109 Chattanooga, TN 37405

When: Friday June 26, 2009 at 6pm (RSVP required by calling Rock/Creek at [masked] ext: 1112. Leave a message with your Name, Number, and Number of expected attendees)

Doug Scott, one of the country’s top experts on the American wilderness movement, will be speaking and signing books at Rock/Creek's Two North Shore location in Chattanooga, TN on Friday June 26, 2009 . Scott will discuss the resurgence of the movement to protect the nation’s remaining wild places, and will give local citizens advice on how to protect special wild areas in Tennessee using the tools granted to us all under The Wilderness Act.

Scott, Policy Director for the Campaign for America’s Wilderness, will read from his latest book, Our Wilderness: America’s Common Ground, a celebration in photographs of some of the country’s spectacular wild treasures and the people who have worked to forever protect them. Robert Redford writes in the book’s foreword, ”Inspired by this book…we can get to work on ensuring that more of these last great places on Earth remain wild and pure and free.” Doug is also the author of The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage Through the Wilderness Act, a look at how the law came about and continues to be used today.

Local wilderness advocate Jeffrey Hunter will introduce the talk. Books will be available for purchase prior to the event.

A living legend in the wilderness and conservation world, Scott helped launch the original Earth Day and worked on every major piece of wilderness legislation in the last 40 years, including direct involvement in the passage of the Eastern Wilderness Acts in 1975 and the recent omnibus lands package (the first environmental legislation signed by President Obama), which protected more than two million acres of wilderness across nine states, including Virginia, West Virginia, California and Oregon.

Jeff Hunter
Tennessee Field Organizer
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
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