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Western Wilderness Conference 2010

Start Date: 4/8/2010 Time: call
End Date: 4/11/2010 Time: call
Location: University of California, Berkeley, California
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Event Type: Special Event

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The Western Wilderness Conference 2010 will take place April 8 to 11, 2010, on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, California. Visit the conference website: www.westernwilderness.org.

Although the event takes place in the San Francisco Bay area, wilderness organizations and advocates from around the West are invited to participate in this grand event. Some 600 to 800 participants from all western states will gather to focus on the role of wild lands in an era of global climate change.

Plenary sessions, dynamic speakers and intensive workshops will help connect wild places with climate change and give lessons on how to advocate more effectively. Music, films and fun.

Save the date now! For anyone who cares about the wild places of the West this is one event not to miss! This is your opportunity to give back, to make a difference and to help secure the grand wild places of the American West for future generations.

Why attend? Western Wilderness Conference 2010 will:

reach out to inspire interested new advocates, including students;
re-inspire longtime dedicated wilderness advocates;
focus on the role of wild lands in an era of global warming;
explore how wildlands advocacy can accommodate Native American traditional land-ethic and cultural values;
promote getting children outside into nature's wild places!
train activists to advocate more effectively for wild places;
and have fun! Dynamic speakers, workshops, music, meals, outings! Its all part of the celebration of the West's wild places.

Sierra Club, California Wilderness Coalition, and Northwest Parks and Wilderness Conference are leading the planning. Twenty-two Sierra Club western chapters are already conference sponsors.

Online registration at www.westernwilderness.org starts in December. Early bird registration fee is $100. Some scholarships available; contact Vicky Hoover, planning committee co-chair, for info: vicky.hoover@sierraclub.org or (425) 977-5527.