Our Wild World

With my guest today, Will Roush, Executive Director of Wilderness Workshop, a non-profit advocacy organization based in the Roaring Fork Valley, CO, we talk about the citizens movements that are required to protect our beloved back country and public lands, which are under siege in unprecedented fashion under current administrations’ “energy domination” agenda. But there is another sector deeply impacting the wilderness – those who recreate in it – often loving it to death through detrimental impacts on landscapes and how this affects wildlife. Will and I discuss these impacts and how each of us can, and that the outdoor industry is stepping up to be a protector of public lands, as their business model depends on having wild places out there. Ultimately, we need education about our impacts and understand the wild is not solely our playground and entertainment, but a complex ecological bio-system upon which we all depend for life, as we know it.