News & downloads

You'll find tons of articles about our work on the Hidden Gems Campaign here. Other recent media coverage of the Wilderness Workshop:

• Ritter roadless plan meets mixed reaction - Aspen Daily News, April 7, 2010 - WW and other Colorado groups express disappointment with the Colorado Roadless Rule submitted to Washington.
  

• Feds yank seven gas leases, citing violations - Sopris Sun, March 25, 2010 - Action by WW is credited with invalidating the leases in the Thompson Divide area.

• Oil industry wants input on county regs - Aspen Daily News, March 11, 2010 - Proposed stricter oil & gas regulations in Pitkin County, which WW has helped create, are challenged by industry.
  

• Wild Generation - Aspen Times, Jan. 18, 2010 - columnist Paul Andersen is inspired by the winners of WW's student essay contest

• Aspen Newsmakers of the Year - Aspen Times, Dec. 27, 2009 - WW executive director Sloan Shoemaker named No. 2 newsmaker of the year (right after our local bank robber/domestic terrorist)

• Benefit to honor wilderness heroes; Hidden Gem detractors plan protest - Aspen Daily News, Dec. 5, 2009 - pre-event coverage of WW's Forever Wild Celebration and a planned protest (which fizzled)
  

• Carbondale's wilderness warrior - Aspen Daily News, Nov. 15, 2009 - profile of WW executive director Sloan Shoemaker

• Local filmmakers' project reaps timely exposure - Aspen Times, Sept. 26, 2009 - feature on the documentary film "Forever Wild," which spotlights the founders of the Wilderness Workshop

• Louder than words: Act today for a Wilderness legacy - Aspen Times, Sept. 3, 2009 - guest column by WW co-presidents Tim McFlynn and Peter Van Domelen

• Drawn to landscapes, he’s off to tackle wilderness - Boston Globe, Aug. 27, 2009 - profile of Maris Platais, winner of WW's fall 2009 Artist in Wilderness residency

• Colorado adds land, closes loophole in roadless plan; local group Wilderness Workshop says plan falls short - Aspen Times, Aug. 3, 2009 - coverage of the ongoing dispute over the proposed Colorado Roadless Rule

• Stimulus money comes to handle beetles - Aspen Daily News, June 15, 2009 - WW director Sloan Shoemaker testifies in DC on the bark beetle epidemic
  

• Coalition seeks protections for remote PitCo - Aspen Daily News, April 15, 2009 - announcement of the Thompson Divide Coalition, which was incubated by WW to protect lands west of the Crystal River from gas drilling
  

 The following WW literature can be downloaded:

• WW brochure

•  Latest edition of Wild Works, WW's newsletter