WW’s newsletter, Wild Works

Wild Works – formerly Wilderness Matters – is WW's periodic (at least twice a year) newsletter. When you join WW, you get an automatic one-year subscription. The following current and back issues can be downloaded: 

June 2010

• Shine on you crazy Gems: proposal now in the spotlight in Eagle & Summit Counties
• Voice your support at June 1-3-4 Polis meetings
• What are the Hidden Gems?
• Hidden Gems Photo Contest fall/winter winners
• Sometimes a proposal really is just a proposal
• Mountain bikers for wilderness: Bike-Wild
• Poll: public supports Gems
• Update: boundary issues
• Hidden Gems 2010 Hike Series
• Hidden Gems: the story in maps
• Thompson Divide Coalition: more important than ever
• WW blocks roadless leases
• Pitkin County weighs tough new gas regs
• Hoping for a better Roadless Rule
• Kitchen Table Campaign raising funds for new office
• Make your gift to WW go 50% farther
• Donor hall of fame
• Wilderness Picnic June 13 & other upcoming events
  

December 2009

• Hidden Gems or bust
• Rallying around the Thompson Divide
• Dialing back the drilling
• Time running out for roadless areas
• Full court press: WW party to four lawsuits
• Naturalist Nights 2010 schedule
• How far can you get from a road?
• Ode to a wilderness sign
• Anatomy of a wilderness proposal: A Wilderness Matters centerfold
• WW supports DeGette bill
• WW comings and goings
• Photo contest captures Gems
• Donor hall of fame
• Give to WW and get a free calendar
  

November 2008

• The promise of January 20: Future looks bright for new wilderness
• Hold yer horses: Pollution and health impacts may rein in gas drilling
• Stronger Colorado oil & gas regs on the way
• Roadless misrule: Mind the gaps
• Stuff goes downhill
• Roan update
• The pipeline and the damage done
• Action stations for Travel Mgt Plan
• Next steps for Hidden Gems Campaign
• Hiking for the Gems
• The dirtiest fuel on earth
• Feeling excluded?
• Here come the beetles
• Naturalist Nights 2009 @ ACES & Dos Gringos
• Maroon Bells Circle summer
• An artist in wilderness
• Please remember WW in your yearend giving
• Donor hall of fame 

June 2008

• What we're doing on our summer vacation: how to mix backcountry business with pleasure
• Hidden Gems hike series schedule
• Go big or go home
• Bull Mountain Pipeline goes to court
• Oil shale: back, whence you came!
• More logging in the name of healthy forests
• Vail Pass impasse
• Ginned up
• Summer seminars
• Welcome new staff and board members 

November 2007

• History lessons: As WW turns 40, an appreciation of audacious victories
• Historical timeline
• Hidden Gems: Polishing up the campaign
• Hidden Gems in a nutshell
• Poll shows strong support
• Bull Mountain Pipeline showdown looms
• Weighing in with the BLM
• Lone ranger: Dave Richie, our man in the field
• As the rotors turn
• Lines drawn on Battle Mountain
• Farewells & thank yous
• Naturalist Nights 2008 @ ACES & Dos Gringos
• Calling all WW board alumni; reunion in the works
• The summer in pictures 

May 2007

• Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign
• Travel Management Plan update
• The cats in the HAATS are back
• WW calls for “time out” on drilling
• Gasfield emissions
• Ozone: the canary in the gas fields?
• Roadless Rule: it's all good
• Battle Mountain charge
• Quiet victories on the beetle/fire front
• WW weighs in on BLM plan
• Happy birthday to WW
• WW moves up in the world
  

October 2006

• A roadmap for peace and quiet: shaping the Travel Management Plan for the better
• Roadless rollercoaster: roadless areas get a break, but aren’t out of the woods yet
• BLM to public: gotcha!
• Mamm Peak: roadlessness regained
• HAATS off – wildlands safe for now
• Roan Plateau in the crosshairs
• I-70 wildlife bridge gains ambassadors
• Help wanted: wolves
• Clear Fork Divide: too wild to drill
• Proposed pipeline could open gas floodgates
• Dottie Fox, 1920-2006
• WW grows with new staff, board members
  

May 2006

• Roadless warriors: campaign moves into high gear for June 21 deadline
• Profiles in roadlessness: Deep Creek
• Wildlife trackers needed
• Beetle mania & the fire fear factor
• And then there were seven...
• Maroon Corps, reporting for duty
• Realtors for Wilderness

January 2006

• Oil shale resurfaces: western Colorado may be a pawn in the oil endgame
• One giant leap for wildlife
• WW blasts helicopter plan
• Campaigns-R-Us
• Founders' Fellow on deck
• WW in 2010: bigger, bolder
• Maki challenge grant funds new staff

November 2005

• Homeland sacrifice? Helicopter training plan pits security against wilderness
• E.Mamm roaded; gas pipeline proposed
• Quiet Commotion
• Roadless campaign rolling
• WRNF MIS: MIA
• Wildfire effort launched
  

August 2005

• Up a creek: outfitter’s plight puts a face on drilling’s destruction
• Travel Management Plan delayed again
• Thompson Creek: keep it wild
• WW fighting new roadless & alpine rollbacks
• Colo. roadless campaign
  
• Our man in the field
• Wildlife overpass update
  

June 2005

• More hands on deck: announcing the Founders’ Fellowship and Fund
• Salazar backs wildlife overpass
• Raising the bar on Baylor Park
• Burnt Mountain: the saga continues
• Backlash on lynx order
• Workshop files Mamm appeal
  
• Aspen "chapter" active
  

March-April 2005

• Breaching the "Berlin Wall": WW, Udall propose I-70 wildlife overpass project
• Lynx? What lynx?
• New hope for Thompson Creek
  
• Burnt Mtn. realpolitik
• Arctic...Roan...write!
  

January - February 2005

• Another year in the wilderness
• An eventful year
• Save the Roan – attend a hearing, write a letter!
  
• Comment on wolf plan
• Git yer copy of "Wild by Nature"
• Tribute thank yous
  

November - December 2004

• Four more years: the 2004 election and the environment
• WW does downvalley
• Adopt a lease
• In memory of Heather Hopton
• BLM: OK to drill Roan Plateau
• Forest Plan appeal now a waiting game
• Court dismisses two more mining claims
  

September 2004

• Fielder, Walk for Wilderness headline September events
• Gas leasing: next steps
• Public comments needed: Roadless Area Conservation Rule, Off-Road Vehicle Rule
• Valley governments set wilderness week
• Mr. Shoemaker goes to Washington
• Carbondale, here we come!
  

July 2004

• Uphill battle: influencing the "how" of gas leasing
• Thompson Creek: please write a letter
• The Wilderness Workshop celebrates 40 years of wilderness in 2004
• Take a walk on the wild side

May 2004

• Defending the "Forgotten Wilderness"
• Wilderness: the next 40 years
• Update: choppers in potential wilderness
• Wild for good: celebrating 40 years of wilderness
• Give your input on proposed off-road rules
  

March 2004

• Celebrating 40 in '04
• 40 ways (give or take) to celebrate wilderness
• Fire forum a blazing success
• Activists sound off for quiet use
• Court rules for wilderness in bogus mining claim case
• Pitco says no to fee demo
• Helicopters in wilderness
  

January 2004

• 2004: knowns and unknowns
• 2003: our annual report
  

February-March 2003

January 2003

December 2002

October 2002

June 2002