Background information:

Americans are living a highly nature-disconnected lifeway that limits contact with natural places (i.e., extinction of experience).  Without contact with nature, the populace loses appreciation for the wild, which leads to apathy for protecting open space (i.e., loss of orientation). 

Apathy for protecting such spaces accelerates their loss (through industrial development and/or pollution), which further reduces the ability for some people to have meaningful contact with nature (i.e., loss of opportunity).  This creates a negative feedback loop where the next generation is even more divorced from nature, and becomes less likely to protect wild land, leading to even greater loss of non-urbanized spaces. 

We are intending to conserve land through purchase and meaningful interaction with the land so that later generations understand the value of the landscape and don’t seek to overturn decisions to protect land (as the current US administration is suggesting for several national monuments). 

Most Americans consume a diet that comes from an agricultural system that relies on forest clearing, prairie tilling, and/or wetland draining to produce food (i.e., a system that harms or destroys natural communities). 

Further, industrially produced foods are documented to be, on average, less nutritious than wild food, lower in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and beneficial phytochemistry, and possessing a distorted balance of essential fatty acids.  This is a major driver of chronic disease in this country. 

Considering that six in ten American adults have a chronic disease, evidence demonstrates we need to save wild areas and the ways of sustainable interaction with those areas for human health (current and unborn generations). 

Methods of procuring food that keep forests standing need to be valued as an important conservation method, because the alternative is to fell the forests to plant crops and raise animals. 

About Bobcat Ledge:

Bobcat Ledge is part of the last remaining wild area between industrial logging to the north and encroaching suburbia to the south. It is a wildlife corridor and home to barred owls, wood nettles, moose, bobcats (of course)

...and this human baby named Fera (meaning wild), who needs a place to gather wild food so she doesn't get a chronic disease (like her mom and dad have). 

When humans obtain a portion of their food (foraging, hunting, fishing), medicine (evidence-based herbal medicine), and clothing (traditional hide-tanning) from the forest, they have a reason to protect the wild and will be able to opt-out of destructive ways of obtaining such necessary items.

This parcel is a critical component of our plan to create a healthy and nature-connected hunter-gatherer community and a public human nature preserve, but it has just been put on the market:


To save it from logging and the inevitable division into house lots, we need to raise $250,000 by spring of 2020—otherwise logging begins. 

We hope you will be generous in your support of this extremely important work for the future generations who may one day roam these lands and truly be home on earth.

Following a reciprocal gift economy model, we will give a small gift to you or someone you love in return for your donation. 

Find out more at www.wilderwaterscommunity.org!