Outdoor America Spring 2012
Outdoor America is the award-winning quarterly magazine of the Izaak Walton League of America. Each issue is filled with entertaining and educational articles about the conservation work of League members. We also provide in-depth coverage of broader conservation issues such as national energy policy, urban sprawl, and wetland loss. To start receiving Outdoor America, become a League member. Here's what you missed in this issue of the magazine:
FEATURES
90
Years of Conservation Success:
From the Jazz Age to a World
War II (PDF)
By
Dawn Merritt
The
2012 Farm Bill: Conserving America’s Future
(PDF)
By Brad
Redlin, Dawn Merritt, and Scott
Kovarovics
Nature
Playscapes: Bringing the “Wild” Back to the
Child
By Julie
Dieguez
2012 IWLA National Convention
Preview
Conservation speakers,
networking opportunities, small-group
workshops, and lots of fun.
DEPARTMENTS
League Leader
Farm
Bill, Philosophies, and Farewell: A final
column from outgoing National President Jim
Madsen
By IWLA National President Jim
Madsen
Directors
Chair
Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s
Conservation Leaders: Why we need to engage
today’s youth in our favorite outdoor
pursuits
By Executive Director David
Hoskins
Letters
Putting
Ethanol in Context * Legacy of the League
League Lines
- Conservation on the Missouri River: Yankton Area Chapter (South Dakota) and League staff
- New Trees Conserve Wildlife Habitat and Water Quality: Fredericksburg-Rappahannock Chapter (Virginia)
- Solar-Powered Conservation: Winchester Chapter (Virginia)
Thinking Like a
Mountain
Don’t We Need Baby Trees
Too? Birds and other animals that need early
successional forests are on the
decline.
By David Hart, Field
Editor
Hooks &
Bulletins
Summer of Paddling *
Endowment in Action: Giant Goose Conservation
Education Workshop * Policy Pulse
Last Stand
The Missouri
River at a Crossroads: League members need to
speak up for Missouri River
Restoration
By Paul Lepisto, IWLA
Missouri River Conservation
Coordinator