ROADLESS
The Search For Our Country's Least Known Wilderness
Photography for Conservation: Over the past four years I have traveled tens of thousands of miles, hiking and kayaking into our country's least known wilderness lands, the "Inventoried Roadless Areas".
In 2000, the Forest Service granted these lands legal protection from road-building. The Roadless Rule, as this regulation was called, was one of the largest conservation actions by the federal government in decades. I undertook this project to let people know about these important and beautiful places.
The Book: I am now finishing a book about this exploration, which will include photographs of mine and of four other photographers who I invited to join me: Phil Borges, Jack Dykinga, Tom Till and Hullihen Moore. Also in the book are stories about people I met along the way from lumber company presidents and ranchers to evangelical preachers and Native American activists.
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<- See the Photographs a short selection of images from the project.
Visit Exhibits and Talks from the ROADLESS project.
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Photographic Exhibit Reveals Rarely Seen Wilderness, Durango Herald
'Roadless' Comes to Durango, Pagosa Daily Post
‘Roadless’ exhibit pays a visit to town, The Durango Telegraph
Nature photography offers slice of tranquility in Washington, D.C., Wilderness Society
Quietly Paving Paradise, Environment America
September 26, 2009: Exhibit & Talk, Golden Colorado, Colorado Mountain Club
September 19, 2009: Exhibit & Talk, Grand Junction Colorado
September 12, 2009: Exhibit & Talk, Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave, Durango, CO
September 4, 2009: Slideshow & Talk, Sunset Valley, TX
February, 2009: Rotunda of the Russell Senate Building in Washington DC (here is a photo from the Senate exhibit).
Fall 2008: Chico California, part of a retrospective of the influence of Ansel Adams on contemporary photography.
Bring the ROADLESS exhibit to your area! The photographs from this exhibit will start traveling the country in late 2009. If you would like to see the photographs exhibited in your community, please contact me.
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Learn more about these wonderful places and explore them yourself!
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Roadlessland.org is a website I created that maps all the roadless areas to help you learn about and explore these wonderful lands. Learn more about Inventoried Roadless Areas at Roadlessland.org. |
Support: This project has largely been a labor of love. It takes a great deal of time to travel across the country to remote locations. I have also traveled to Washington, DC to speak with Congressional representatives about the issue, and I have donated images from the book to non-profits in support of roadless area conservation.
I am grateful to people who have helped support this effort in different ways. Photographing some of the roadless areas in Alaska was challenging, and I was helped by many wonderful people who live there and struggle daily to protect the forests they love and depend upon. This project has also received partial support from The Saada Family Foundation, Environmental Defense and The Heritage Forests Campaign.
