Free gear for wilderness guardians

Interested in helping to protect our wild places—and looking good while doing it? Columbia Highlands Wilderness t-shirts are now available for free to our Adopt a Wilderness participants!

Choose from five designs, each featuring a beautiful photograph of a roadless area—Bald-Snow, Thirteenmile, Owl Mountain, Hall Mountain and Twin Sisters—deserving of protection as wilderness. These t-shirts are a great way to show your support for wilderness in the Columbia Highlands.

Earning your shirt is easy:

1. Adopt one or more roadless areas in the Colville National Forest. With your free, symbolic adoption, you are pledging to speak up for this area.
2. Write a letter to Senator Cantwell and to Representative McMorris Rodgers and urge them to support permanent protection of these rare wild lands under the Wilderness Act. Use our letter-writing talking points to get started. Sharing your experience with these roadless areas will make your letter personal and powerful. You could even include a photo or two.
3. Host a  letter-writing party for wilderness at your home. Conservation Northwest will help make this easy and fun.

Then, just take one of the following actions and the free t-shirt is yours!

1. Become a postcard captain for wilderness and commit to getting 25 or more friends, family, and acquaintances to sign a Columbia Highlands postcard.
2. Write a letter to the editor for wilderness. Conservation Northwest can provide you with contact information and relevant publications.
3. Add an email signature to your emails—for example, "I'm speaking up for wilderness in the beautiful Columbia Highlands of northeastern Washington. Please write to Sen. Cantwell and Rep. McMorris Rodgers and urge them to support permanent protection of these rare wild lands under the Wilderness Act."
4. Post photos you’ve taken of your adopted wilderness area with personal comments to your Facebook page, the Columbia Highlands Flickr group, and Flickr photo groups for other organizations, from High Country News to The Nature Conservancy.
5. Offer to be interviewed about your experience hiking in a Columbia Highlands wilderness area for our website or a publication. Contact Aaron Theisen.
   
6. Write a trip report for the Washington Trails Association. Be sure to mention that this area is deserving of protection and ask that readers take action by writing a letter for wilderness.
7. Invite a friend to adopt a wilderness. Each wilderness area needs several advocates speaking up for it.

Supplies of each design are limited, so act now! Email Crystal for details.