UEC Annual Conference

Saturday, November 14

7:00pm

The Mill at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park

589 East 1300 South

Salt Lake City

 

Join your friends at UEC for our 11th Annual Conference at The Chase Mill in Tracy Aviary at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City.  Our keynote speaker will be George Wuerthner who will talk about fire ecology.  George Wuerthner is editor of Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy.  He's a full-time freelance writer and photographer with degrees in botony, wildlife biology, and range science. A nationally prominent critic of public lands grazing, Wuerthner lives in Eugene, Oregon.

We'll enjoy food, drinks, lively conversation, a silent auction of cool items and services to benefit UEC, Wuerthner's presentation, and hanging out with fellow forest and wildlife lovers.  A contribution of $20 is requested.  If you cannot attend, please consider making a donation to support UEC's work.

Please RSVP to bob@uec-utah.org or call 801-466-4055.

We thank the following for their contributions to the silent auction:

Wilderness Volunteers -- Dark Canyon Wilderness May 9-15, 2010 service trip

Guy Tal – gorgeous framed print of fall leaves
 
Black Diamond – Apollo lantern
 
Michael Frome – Chronicling the West books
 
Thomas D. Mangelsen’s Images of Nature gallery – “Promises of the Prairie” prairie dogs framed print
 
Deer Valley Resort – two 1-day ski lift passes
 
Two KCPW jackets
 
Earth Goods General Store – gift certificate
 
Xmission – internet service gift certificates
 
Cactus & Tropicals – gift certificate
 
Treasure Mountain Inn – gift certificate for 2 nights stay in Park City
 
Dance Scene / Margene Anderson – gift certificate for one 4-week session for 2 people
 
James Kay – book and CD Resurrection
 
Wasatch Touring – free rental gift certificate
 
The Front Climbing Club – two 1-month membership gift certificates
 
Patagonia Outlet -- $890 worth of cool outdoor apparel
 
George Wuerthner – 4 copies of the coffee table-sized book Thrillcraft—The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation
 
Kings English Bookshop – tote bag, book The Gift, gift certificate
 
Stephen Trimble – book Bargaining for Eden:  The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
 
Book Wild by Law:  The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved

Ken Sanders Rare Books – 4 Monkey Wrench Gang t-shirts (Seldom Seen Smith, Hayduke Lives!, The Wrench, Bonnie Abbzug), The Monkey Wrench Gang, Wild Goose Chronicles, Everett Ruess:  A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals.
 
Ron Younger -- box of assorted goodies