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Helene Walsh: 2016 AWA Wilderness Defender Award Recipient

August 1, 2016

August 2016 Wildlands Advocate article, by Andrea Johancsik.

Helene Walsh, recipient of AWA’s Wilderness Defenders Award, saved a piece of this forest in the 800 km2 Chinchaga Wildland Park in a David and Goliath fight.  Helene treasured these immense forests not for their timber value but for their intrinsic values. She saw teeming life and beauty, nature’s strength and fragility, grandeur, wildness. Persistent. Resolute. Strong. Those words describe Helene Walsh.

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No public hearings are scheduled. Only one Alberta organization, the Alberta Wilderness Association, is independent enough that it continues championing public land and the people's right of access to it. So people must speak individually, as they have so many times before, directly to the premier, the minister of Sustainable Resource Development and their MLA, and remind them of what public land means to all of us, that none of it is surplus to our needs, that we do not want it sold.
- Bob Scammell, 2003
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