Making a Difference: Stories of How Our Outdoor Industry and Individuals Are Working to Preserve America's Natural Places - Softcover

Irvine, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762709138 ISBN 13: 9780762709137

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr, 2001

Synopsis

An inspirational compendium of true-life stories explains how grassroots conservation and environmental groups are working together with outdoor industries to preserve some of America's natural wildlands. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Formerly a nationally-ranked competitive rock climber and ski guide, wilderness advocate and freelance writer Amy Irvine makes her home among the red rock canyons of southern Utah. Her work has appeared in Climbing and Rock and Ice, as well as several anthologies of short stories.

From the Back Cover

This is a book about grassroots environmental organizations - most of them staffed with local volunteers - fighting to save their wild backyards. It's a collection of stories about people who were aghast when they learned some company or some agency was threatening to cut their forests, dam their rivers, mine their mountains, or develop their open meadows. In some cases this initial shock turned to anger, which was then channeled into action; in other cases people's initial doubts about whether they could do anything evolved into a conviction that they had to do something. Best of all, these are stories about people who stood up for what was right, and won. Behind all these stories is an environmental organization called The Outdoor Industry Conservation Alliance (OICA), a group of outdoor businesses whose collective contributions support grassroots citizen-action groups and their efforts to protect wild and natural areas. Alliance funds have played a pivotal role in the protection of rivers, trails, wildlands, and climbing areas. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 290 pages, b&w photos, maps)

For publicity information on this book, such as author signings and other special events, contact Jane Reilly (203-458-4500 or jreilly@globe-pequot.com).

Reviews

Never underestimate the power of one cause, one passion, or one voice: it may be enough to move mountains. Or, it may prevent them from being moved, as is often the case in Irvine's chronicle of stories about individuals who, when faced with an assault on their local environment, discover that they must act on the courage of their convictions or lose a way of life as important to them as the air they breathe. Anger and shock are transformed into action and success as these concerned citizens secure the support of the Outdoor Industry Conservation Alliance and form grassroots environmental organizations dedicated to saving wildlife or wilderness threatened by governmental, commercial, or corporate development. Whether rescuing a pristine stretch of river in northern California or restoring the native habitat of the wolf in northern Maine, each cause brings together, to profound effect, people passionate about preserving a vulnerable and precious way of life. Irvine provides inspiring and informative reading in the best "David versus Goliath" tradition. Carol Haggas
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Edition details

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762709138
• ISBN 13: 9780762709137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263