Building Community Film Series
Continues
A Sense of Wonder, a Film on
Rachel Carson
 The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
continues its Fall Film series with a screening of A Sense of
Wonder at O’Niell’s Pub (4310 Central Ave. SE) on
Nov. 19, Thursday at 7 PM. This is a free event.
A Sense of Wonder is an
hour-long documentary about the pioneering environmentalist,
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring (1962). Her work as a
marine biologist and nature writer led to a nationwide ban on
DDT, and the grassroots movement the book inspired led to the
creation of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] in
1970.
The film depicts Carson in
the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer but not
without a keen sense of humor, Carson focuses her limited energy
to get her message to Congress and the American
people.
Filmed in HD by two-time
Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, this film presents
an intimate reflection of Carson’s life as she emerges as
America’s most successful advocate for the natural
world.
Her central message rings
true today: “We still think in terms of conquest, but man
is part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a
war against himself.”
For more information, please
contact Roger Turner,
Membership and Volunteer Coordinator for the New Mexico
Wilderness Alliance.
Get
Out and Get Involved!
Hike Leaders /
Volunteers Wanted for 2010 Wilderness Service
Projects
 The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is
providing a great “outdoor” experience and
opportunity when you volunteer to become a hike leader or
participate in our many service projects.
“Leaders” will
receive a full day of training by NMWA staff, including basic
first aid, map reading wherever appropriate, and leading a trial
hike into a nearby wilderness area with a small group. In
addition to all our hikes listed in the 2010 Wild Guide, hike
leaders (after completing training) are free to develop their
own hikes and group sizes.
Service projects offer a
range of experiences: wildlife surveys in Mills Canyon and Otero
Mesa; community outreach projects with acequia and land grant
communities in northern New Mexico; monitoring ATV trail
closures on public lands; and wilderness inventories for
invasive species and recreational usage in the Latir, Dome,
Pecos, and Manzano wilderness areas. You’ll get the chance
to lead small groups and “adopt” a trail or to
simply participate in the projects.
For further info
please contact Craig Chapman at craig@nmwild.org or Nathan Newcomer at
nathan@nmwild.org.
We Want Your
Input
Map Updates Being Made to Our
Website
 Here
at the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, we are constantly
striving to update and improve our membership communication. A
major component of how we interact with our membership is
through our website (www.nmwild.org).
Our GIS specialist, Miranda Gray, is
embarking on a quest to create a user-friendly, interactive "web
map." She wants to know what would be most important for YOU
when visiting our interactive map...
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|
- Directions to our
2010 hikes and volunteer service projects?
- Locations of our campaign priority
areas and helpful facts?
- Wilderness trails?
- Aerial and street views
(similiar to Google Earth)?
- The ability to mark up and
print your own
map? |
- This is an opportunity
for YOU to give us feedback on what you feel would be
most helpful in learning more about the wildest public lands in
New Mexico.
Drop Miranda a
line here and tell us what you
think. | 
