Letter from the Executive Director

This past December, I had the privilege of attending Clif Merritt’s eighty-seventh birthday. Clif is a founder of American Wildlands, and well-known amongst wildlands advocates as a pioneer of the wilderness movement. While driving to his home in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, I thought about this organization I had now been at the helm of for a little more than a year, and how it had evolved since Clif and his co-founders first established American Wildlands...

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