 Wild for Good: The Story of Aspen’s Wilderness Workshop 42 minutes Narrated by Terry Tempest Williams and Page Stegner First Light Productions, 2004 Wild for Good: The Story of Aspen’s Wilderness Workshop documents the importance of wilderness in America and the contribution of citizens who have worked extraordinarily hard to ensure a wilderness legacy for all Americans, for all time. Wild for Good celebrates the dedication and vision of the “Maroon Belles” – Joy Caudill, Dottie Fox and Connie Harvey – who founded the Aspen Wilderness Workshop in 1967. Conservation pioneers for nearly four decades, the three have played leading roles in the enlargement of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area and the establishment of the Hunter-Fryingpan, Collegiate Peaks and Raggeds Wilderness Areas – nearly a half-million acres of protected wilderness in all. The organization they founded – the Wilderness Workshop – has become a model for grassroots environmental advocacy. The film sets the achievements of the trio against the larger backdrop of national conservation efforts, policy and legislation of the past half century. Featuring interviews with wilderness historian Doug Scott, the Sierra Club’s Maggie Fox and Wilderness Society president Bill Meadows, it traces the genesis of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the success of citizen campaigns to designate wilderness areas since then, and discusses some of the challenges now facing the wilderness movement. Included are extensive interviews with the three women, filmed on location in the mountains around their homes in the Roaring Fork Valley and at the famous kitchen table where they gathered to map their original wilderness proposals. $18 each (price includes shipping).
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