EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Five, Number Six September/October 1996 WILDERNESS SOCIETY NAMES NACCE BOARD MEMBER A NATIONAL LANDS HERO In May 1996, the Wilderness Society and Izaac Walton League saluted ten American Land Heroes including Susan and Joseph Bower of Hayfork CA. Susan has been on the Board of NACCE since 1993. Volunteers in nine other states were also named National Lands Heroes for their courage, energy, persistence, and leadership in defending our public lands in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Virginia, and Washington. In addition to maintaining a refuge for wild animals on their property in the mountains of northern California, since 1976 the Bowers have fought the spraying of chemicals in the national forests; bird-dogged the Forest Service to improve forest management; and helped secure wilderness protection for more than half a million acres, including the Trinity Alps. The Bowers were founders of Citizens for Better Forestry (CBF) to get local residents more involved with the Forest Service's ongoing planning efforts. CBF is distributing a professional quality video (Public Forests; Plunder or Promise?) illustrating the destruction of ecosystems likely to result from the Salvage Logging Rider passed last summer. Susan's goal, as a Board member, is to awaken Christians to their duty to protect God's creation." After all," she says, "how can anyone claim to love God while trashing what God made, owns, and cherishes?" For more on Citizens for Better Forestry or the video and the Bower's work, write PO Box 1510, Hayfork CA 96041. Home     Table of Contents