The John Muir Youth Award

Wilderness Teaching Resources

The Five Challenges:
1. DISCOVER - A Wild Place
2. EXPLORE - Landscape and Wildlife
3. CONSERVE and Protect it
4. SHARE Your Discoveries
5. LEARN About John Muir

Film and Video

• "Wildland" - The Sierra Club presents a High Plains Film. VIDEOCASSETTE. 35 minutes. Excellent overview of current threats to wilderness, covering Alaska, California, the northern Rockies, Florida, and Maine. Available from: Sierra Club, 406 C St. NE, Washington,D.C. 20002. (202) 547-1141
• "For Earth's Sake - the Life and times of David Brower - Bullfrog Films, 58 minutes, Color, Grade Level: 9-12, College, Adult, 1989.
• "The Wilderness Idea - John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the First Great Battle of Wilderness" VIDEOCASSETTE (Florentine Films, a film by Lawrence Hott & Diane Garey) (58 min., $29.95) Distributed by: Direct Cinema Ltd., P.O.Box 10003, Santa Monica, CA 90410 310-636-8200 Documentary focusing on the Hetch Hetchy battle, from historical and contemporary perspectives.
• "Hetch Hetchy: Yosemite's Lost Valley" DVD or VIDEOCASSETTE (Narrated by Shari Belafonte; Produced by Deborah Landowne, Restore Hetch Hetchy, 2003). 19 Minutes, Color. New documentary video about the win-win campaign to restore the beautiful valley inside Yosemite National Park while still providing water to the City of San Francisco.
• Film and Video about John Muir - Comprehensive listing.

Curriculum Materials

• Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
  * Wilderness Education Curriculum (K-12)
  * Wilderness Management and Awareness training materials
  Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
  20325 Remount Rd.,
  Huson, MT 59846

• National Geographic Society
  To order - (800) 368-2728, or fax (301) 921-1575:

  1. Map - The United States Federal Lands and Wilderness Areas
  2. "Our National Parks," National Geographic, Oct. 1994.

• University of Arizona
  The Green Scene , a curriculum unit including wilderness and forest ecology. Grades 4-6. $15. "Citizen Action: The Wilderness Act"

  Green Scene, School of Renewable Natural Resources
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, AZ 85721

• K-8 Wilderness and Land Ethic Curriculum - An excellent K- 8 curriculum sponsored by

  Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
  32 Campus Drive
  Missoula, Montana 59812-1900
  

  Telephone: (406) 243-4682
  FAX - (406) 243-4717
  

• Grades 9-12 Wilderness and Land Ethic Curriculum - from Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center

• Wilderness Information Network - Sponsored by The University of Montana Wilderness Institute, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, US Forest Service, US National Park Service, US Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Famous Wilderness Quotes

• Wilderness in California's National Forests (USFS)

• Washington Wilderness Coalition - Wilderness Volunteer Corps. - an example of an outdoor service and education program.

• U.S. Geological Survey "Outdoors America" a free map of federal recreation land in United States USGS Distribution Box 25286 Denver, CO 80225

• Related Resources on the Internet - John Muir's Unfinished Business, Wilderness organizations, etc.

• The Wilderness Society 900 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006
  • Wilderness Act Handbook (1998). This classic handbook contains a section-by-section explanation of the Wilderness Act, including the law in its entirety, with an analysis of subsequent legislation that has influenced the designation or management of wilderness. The Handbook also contains short milestone references to significant wilderness events through 1998
  • Wilderness, State by State- Information on the wilderness areas managed by the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the National Forest Service, organized by state, year of designation, and wilderness area.

Books

• Abbey, Edward, Desert Solitaire Ballantine Books, 1968. - A modern classic; the iconoclast Abbey speaks eloquently - and savagely - about the meaning and value of wilderness.
• Brower, David, ed.,The Place No One Knew Sierra Club, 1963. Eliot Porter photography combined with quotations about the value of wilderness: see especially the second part of the book, "The Idea".
• Frome, Michael, Battle for the Wilderness - A complete history of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and ensuing campaigns to preserve wilderness. Wilderness Management
• Hendee, John C., et al. Wilderness Management (1997) Quintessential text for managing wilderness after it is designated.
• Leopold, Aldo, A Sand County Almanac - Written in the 1940's, a classic by one of the first persons to write popularly on the ecological perspective. His essay on "The Land Ethic" provides the foundation for modern environmental philosophy.
• Muir, John, The Wilderness World of John Muir . Edited by Edwin Way Teale. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954, pap. reprint. - This anthology remains the best introduction to Muir's writings about wilderness available today.
• Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind, (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1982) - Essential source for the history of wilderness as an idea, political and social movement.

Articles and Magazines

• Keating, Joseph, and Terri Anderson, "Using the Wilderness as an Outdoor Classroom for Interdisciplinary Science Learning" CSTA Journal, Fall, 1997.
• Wilderness America, The Wilderness Society

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