READ ARIZONA REPUBLIC PIECE ABOUT WILDERNESS PURCHASE

Dear Friends,

This popular Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness trailhead was on private land until the Trust purchased and conveyed it to the Forest Service.

Since 1992 the Trust has protected ocean-front wilderness in northern California, alpine meadows 13,500 feet above sea level in the Colorado Rockies, saguaro-studded canyons in the Arizona desert,  virgin forests in Washington State, mountain lakes in western Montana, and hundreds other of America’s wildest places. The Wilderness Land Trust is the only organization devoted exclusively to purchasing privately-owned parcels of land within existing and proposed wilderness areas. Without our efforts these parcels, known as inholdings, could be developed with home sites, logging, mining, road building, and other activities that compromise or destroy wilderness characteristics.  The Trust is building capacity to continue our extraordinary pace of preservation. It is crucial that we do so before these lands are lost to development within our treasured wildernesses.

The site of a Trust purchase in 2006, Lost Coast Trail in the newly-designated King Range Wilderness follows the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the United States mainland.

Map showing the approximate locations of lands purchased by the Wilderness Land Trust in southern California. (click to enlarge)

Please consider becoming a member today.  All donations result directly in the preservation of wilderness land.Thank you for all your help in protecting our wild places!

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Sincerely,

Reid Haughey, President