A special free event on September 3, 2009, with Susan Flader at the Round Valley Public Library in Eagar from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
Sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council
Print version of schedule
Outings
Map of Area
Saturday Morning Session -
The Contributions of Aldo Leopold
- 8:45- 10:00 Aldo Leopold’s contribution to the conservation movement.
- Susan Flader, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Missouri, author of Thinking Like a Mountain
- Julianne Lutz Warren, Faculty, Liberal Studies, New York University, author of Aldo Leopold's Odyssey.
- Curt Meine, Director at the Center for Humans and Nature. Meine has edited and authored several books including His biography Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work and Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation.
- 10:15-11:00 Aldo Leopold’s impact on the Forest Service
- Steve Dunsky, Film Maker. Producer of The Greatest Good. Steve is currently working on a documentary on the life of Aldo Leopold titled Green Fire: The Life and Legacy of Aldo Leopold.
- 11:15-12:00 Aldo Leopold Listens to the Southwest
- Dan Shilling, Co-directed NEH Aldo Leopold Summer Institute, author of Civic Tourism: The Poetry and Politics of Place
Saturday afternoon – Field trips in White Mountains
While people are free to explore the White Mountains on their own, we have various field trips planned including; hikes up Escudilla, in the Blue River Primitive Area, along the Mogollon Rim, in the area that is proposed as expansion area of Escudilla Wilderness, and others.
Saturday Evening – The Fierce Green Fire Returns
- 5:30-7:00
- Dinner (Purchase at registration or bring your own), Music by Linda Lou and the Desert Drifters
- 7:00-8:15 Film
- Lords of Nature, Green Fire Productions
- 8:15-9:30 Predators in the Southwest
- Michael Robinson – Center for Biological Diversity author of Predatory Bureaucracy.
- Dave Parsons – Rewilding Institute, Large Carnivore Biologist
Map of Nutrioso
Map to Nutrioso Community Center/Schoolhouse
Map to Luna Lake Campground
Sunday Morning Session –
The Work Yet to Be Done
- 8:30-10:15 - Creating a quilt out of a patchwork: Linking the wild lands throughout the West
- Matt Skroch – President, Board of Directors, Arizona Wilderness Coalition
- Kurt Menke, Co-Chair, Tijeras Canyon Safe Passage Coalition
- Mark Watson, Terrestrial Habitat Specialist, New Mexico Game and Fish Department
- Janice Przybyl, Wildlife Linkages Coordinator, Sky Island Alliance
- 10:45 - 12:00 “The Way Forward: Policy and the possibility of public land reform in the Southwest
- Curt Meine – Director at the Center for Humans and Nature.
- Courtney White - Executive Director, Quivira Coalition
- Kim Crumbo - Conservation Director, Wilderness and Land Planning Professional
- Doug Scott - Policy Director, Campaign for America’s Wilderness
Sunday Afternoon – Field trips in White Mountains
Sunday Evening – Where do we go from here?
- 5:30-7:00 Dinner
- Purchase dinner ticket at registration or bring your own
- 7:00 – 8:00 Enlarging the wilderness in the Southwest
- Doug Scott – Policy Director, Campaign for America’s Wilderness, Author Our Wilderness: America's Common Ground and Enduring Wilderness
- 8:00- 8:15 Closing remarks
Bonfire at Luna Lake
- 8:45 – 9:30 Music by Linda Lou and the Desert Drifters
- 9:30 – 10:00 Bonfire – In the Footsteps of Leopold: On being a wilderness ranger in the White Mountains
- Don Hoffman, Retired Wilderness Ranger
- Myron Burnett, Wilderness Ranger
- 10:00 Campfire and sing along
Monday Morning – Field Trips in White Mountains