#title Wildlands Project director to speak in Bozeman, bus leaves from here
#author Dillon Tribune
#date October 18, 1995
#source Dillon Tribune (Montana), October 18, 1995. <[[https://mthspublic.newspapers.com/article/dillon-tribune-wildlands-project-lecture/208859696/][mthspublic.newspapers.com]]>
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-10-23T18:37:02
#topics Earth First!, Montana, history,

An evening with Dave Foreman, Director of the Wildlands Project and special guest Doug Peacock, will be presented by Patagonia in Bozeman on Friday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Emerson Cultural Center.

The Wildlands Project was created to develop a comprehensive North American Wilderness Recovery Strategy.

Foreman has spent the last twenty years as a full-time conservationist. He launched a new conservation magazine, ‘Wild Earth!,” after leaving full-time employment with national conservation organizations in the late 1980s. ‘Wild Earth!” promotes the ideas of large ecological wilderness preserves and supports the growing grassroots “New Conservation Movement.”

Foreman is also the owner of a conservation mail order bookstore, Dave Foreman’s Books of the Big Outside. He is the author of “Confessions of an Eco-Warrior” (1991), co-author of “The Big Outside” (1989) and co-editor of “Ecodefense” (1985).

Doug Peacock, the author of “Grizzly Years” (1990), has devoted his life to saving the grizzly bear and its wild habitat. He is best known as Edward Abbey’s inspiration for his character, George Hayduke, in the “Monkey Wrench Gang.”

Admission is $5.00 at the door, or tickets can be purchased in advance at The Patagonia Outlet in Dillon. Proceeds will go to the Alliance For The Wild Rockies. Transportation to Bozeman is available by calling Beth Sullivan at 683–2580.