BROADS SAY: TAKE A HIKE
Great Old
Broads for Wilderness will head for the hills this fall to rally
support for Utah wilderness. From Sept. 17 through Oct. 14, the
group with the great name will schedule day hikes for supporters of
America’s Redrock Wilderness Act. The Act would protect 5.7 million
acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Utah’s
congressional delegation is pushing legislation that would
designate only l.8 million acres (HCN, 3/20/95). “We want this
Broadwalk to be a celebration of all that wilderness provides to
us,” says Susan Tixier, co-founder and president of the nonprofit
Great Old Broads. “We do not want it to be a funeral march.” The
Broadwalk will end in St. George, Utah, on Oct. l3, coinciding with
the opening of the Fifth Annual Wilderness Conference in St.
George. The event is open to anyone, for, as Tixier says,
“Broadness is a state of mind.” For more information about the
Broadwalk and Great Old Broads for Wilderness, write or call Great
Old Broads, P.O. Box 4921, Missoula, MT 59806
(406/251-2679).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Broads say: Take a hike.
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