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      <Description>conservation projects THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY IS OPERATING IN A TIME OF TREMENDOUS CHANGE, AND RARELY HAVE THE STAKES BEEN HIGHER FOR OUR NATION'S NATURAL LEGACY. AMERICA'S PUBLIC LANDS MAY SEEM VAST, BUT THEY'RE NOT LIMITLESS, AND MANY ARE THREATENED. THIS PAST CONGRESS WAS THE FIRST IN OVER 40 YEARS TO ADJOURN WITHOUT PROTECTING AN ACRE OF WILDERNESS. FURTHER CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE INCREASING DEMANDS FOR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ARE CREATING CHALLENGES FOR PROTECTING AMERICA'S REMAINING WILD LANDS. THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY HAS A DEEP HISTORY OF PROTECTING THE WILDEST OF OUR PUBLIC LANDS; WE'VE LED ON NEARLY EVERY MAJOR PUBLIC LANDS DECISION OF THE PAST CENTURY, FROM THE 1964 WILDERNESS ACT, RESULTING IN 110 MILLION ACRES OF TRUE WILDERNESS, TO THE PASSAGE OF THE OMNIBUS PUBLIC LANDS BILL OF 2009. THIS PAST SPRING, WE WELCOMED JAMIE WILLIAMS TO THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY AS OUR NEW PRESIDENT. HAVING WORKED FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS WITH THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, WHERE HE LED ITS MONTANA PROGRAM, LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION FOR NORTH AMERICA AND YAMPA RIVER WORK, JAMIE HELPED DEVELOP THE LARGE-LANDSCAPE FOCUS WITHIN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS INITIATIVE AND SPEARHEADED CRITICAL EFFORTS TO SECURE CONSERVATION FUNDING IN CONGRESS FOR PLACES LIKE MONTANA'S BLACKFOOT VALLEY. A FORMER NOLS INSTRUCTOR AND WHITEWATER RIVER GUIDE, JAMIE BROUGHT A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE TO THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY. TOGETHER WE ARE MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY-BELOW ARE SOME SNAPSHOTS OF OUR CONSERVATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE PAST YEAR: FORT ORD AND CHIMNEY ROCK NATIONAL MONUMENTS - RESPONDING TO GRASSROOTS CALLS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PRICELESS HISTORIC AND CULTURAL TREASURES AND THEIR SURROUNDING LANDS, PRESIDENT OBAMA USED HIS AUTHORITY UNDER THE ANTIQUITIES ACT AND DESIGNATED TWO NEW NATIONAL MONUMENTS ENCOMPASSING EXTENSIVE SURROUNDING WILDLANDS. FORT ORD, A HISTORIC ARMY BASE, CONTAINS SOME OF THE LAST UNDEVELOPED NATURAL LANDS ON CALIFORNIA'S MONTEREY PENINSULA. CHIMNEY ROCK, COVERING 4,700 ACRES IN THE SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST IN COLORADO, HOLDS RUINS OF THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURES BUILT BY THE ANCESTORS OF MODERN PUEBLOAN INDIANS. THE ANTIQUITIES ACT ALLOWS THE PRESIDENT TO PROTECT AMERICA'S SPECIAL PLACES, AND THE NEW MONUMENTS WERE UNDERPINNED BY DIVERSE AND BIPARTISAN LOCAL SUPPORT, ORGANIZED IN SEVERAL INSTANCES WITH HELP FROM THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY. WESTERN ARCTIC RESERVE, ALASKA - IN DECEMBER, THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT HEEDED THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY'S SOUND SCIENCE WHEN IT ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD PROTECT 11 MILLION ACRES - FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - IN THE RESERVE, INCLUDING CRITICAL CARIBOU HABITAT AND BIRD NESTING AREAS LIKE TESHEKPUK LAKE AND THE UTUKOK UPLANDS. THE MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE FIRST COMPLETED SINCE BLM TOOK OVER MANAGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE-ALASKA IN THE 1970S, ALLOWS FOR OIL DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS LESS IMPORTANT TO WILDLIFE. TOGETHER WITH THE BLM, THE STATE OF ALASKA, CONOCOPHILLIPS, THE NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH AND AUDUBON ALASKA, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY SPENT SEVERAL YEARS GATHERING AND ASSEMBLING SCIENTIFIC DATA THAT HELPED DECISION-MAKERS UNDERSTAND HOW WILDLIFE USE SOME OF THE RESERVE'S MOST IMPORTANT AREAS. UPPER HOBACK RIVER BASIN, WYOMING - AFTER A SEVEN-YEAR STRUGGLE, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY HELPED WYOMING CITIZENS SAVE THIS WILD PART OF THE WYOMING RANGE, IN THE SOUTHERN REACHES OF THE GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM, FROM IMMINENT NATURAL GAS FRACKING AND DEVELOPMENT. AS PART OF A STRONG CONSERVATION COALITION, WE CREATED THE ENVIRONMENT FOR A HISTORIC AGREEMENT FOR THE GAS LEASES TO BE BOUGHT OUT BY OUR CONSERVATION PARTNER, THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND, AND THEN WE HELPED RAISE MORE THAN $8 MILLION TO FUND THE LEASE BUY-OUT BEFORE THE DECEMBER 31 DEADLINE. ROADLESS AREA CONSERVATION RULE - A SERIES OF LEGAL CHALLENGES INTENDED TO UNDO THE ROADLESS RULE WAS HALTED FOR GOOD WHEN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DECIDED NOT TO HEAR THE FINAL APPEAL. THE ROADLESS RULE, APPROVED BY PRESIDENT CLINTON IN 2001 TO PROTECT LARGE BLOCKS OF ROADLESS FOREST, WILL KEEP 49 MILLION ACRES OF NATIONAL FOREST LAND FROM WASHINGTON STATE TO NORTH CAROLINA WILD AND UNBROKEN WHILE CONTINUING TO GIVE AMERICANS ACCESS TO SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S BEST HUNTING, FISHING, HIKING AND OTHER RECREATION AREAS. FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THE CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT ROADLESS AREAS AND UPHOLD THE ROADLESS RULE. STEPHEN MATHER WILDERNESS, WASHINGTON - IN SEPTEMBER, 3,559 ACRES KNOWN AS THUNDER CREEK VALLEY WERE ADDED TO THE STEPHEN MATHER WILDERNESS IN THE NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK COMPLEX. WHEN STEPHEN MATHER WAS DESIGNATED A WILDERNESS AREA BY CONGRESS THROUGH THE WASHINGTON PARKS WILDERNESS ACT OF 1988, IT CAME WITH THE PROVISION THAT OTHER ADJACENT LANDS COULD BE ADDED TO IT IN FUTURE. LAST YEAR, AFTER SEATTLE CITY LIGHT ABANDONED ITS ONE-TIME PLANS TO DEVELOP THUNDER CREEK FOR HYDROPOWER PRODUCTION, THE DOOR WAS OPENED FOR FORMER INTERIOR SECRETARY KEN SALAZAR TO MAKE THIS ADMINISTRATIVE DESIGNATION PROTECTING THUNDER CREEK VALLEY, WITH FULL WILDERNESS SOCIETY ENCOURAGEMENT. WILDERNESS BILLS IN THE BALANCE - MORE THAN 25 WILDERNESS BILLS, MANY CRAFTED WITH THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY AND LOCAL SUPPORT, REMAINED BEFORE CONGRESS IN 2012, BUT LEGISLATORS FAILED TO ACT ON ANY OF THEM. FROM THE MAINE COASTAL ISLANDS WILDERNESS ACT, TO THE CENTRAL IDAHO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECREATION ACT, TO THE COLUMBINE-HONDO WILDERNESS ACT IN NEW MEXICO, MANY OF THESE BILLS CARRY BIPARTISAN SUPPORT, BUT THEY STILL COULD NOT GENERATE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. THE 112TH CONGRESS BECAME THE FIRST IN MORE THAN 40 YEARS THAT FAILED TO PROTECT A SINGLE WILDERNESS AREA. BLM'S SOLAR PLAN - IN SEPTEMBER, CULMINATING THREE YEARS OF WORK, THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT RELEASED ITS SOLAR PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, THE FIRST-EVER ROADMAP FOR LARGE-SCALE SOLAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ON BLM LANDS IN ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, NEVADA, NEW MEXICO AND UTAH. THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY, PARTICULARLY OUR 2011 "SMART SOLAR" REPORT, WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING SET THE PLAN THAT WILL GUIDE SOLAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT TOWARD 300,000 ACRES OF LOW-CONFLICT ZONES ON PUBLIC LANDS AND AWAY FROM MORE THAN 78 MILLION ACRES OF CULTURALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS. THE NEW ROADMAP IS A WIN FOR BOTH CLEAN ENERGY AND WILDLANDS PROTECTION. PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA - PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT, NEAR SOLEDAD IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA, WAS UPGRADED TO BECOME THE NATION'S 59TH NATIONAL PARK AFTER THE SENATE PASSED BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION CHAMPIONED BY REPRESENTATIVE SAM FARR AND SENATOR BARBARA BOXER. SINCE 2003, THE MONUMENT, WHICH WAS CREATED BY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN 1908, HAS BEEN PART OF THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR RECOVERY PROGRAM, HARBORING 30 OF THE ENDANGERED BIRDS. NAMED FOR THE FINGERLIKE VOLCANIC SPIRES AND CRAGS THAT TOWER ABOVE OAK SAVANNAS AND CHAPARRAL, PINNACLES IS HOME TO BOBCATS, BATS, THREATENED SALAMANDERS AND THE CALIFORNIA RED-LEGGED FROG. WHILE THE NATIONAL PARK DESIGNATION PASSED CONGRESS, ITS PROPOSED WILDERNESS PROTECTIONS DID NOT. WEST-WIDE ENERGY CORRIDORS - THREE YEARS AFTER THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY AND MORE THAN A DOZEN CONSERVATION GROUPS AND ONE COLORADO COUNTY FILED A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING A PLAN THAT WOULD HAVE PLACED TRANSMISSION LINES AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH IMPORTANT WILDLANDS ACROSS THE WEST, A LEGAL AGREEMENT WAS FILED IN FEDERAL COURT IN SAN FRANCISCO REQUIRING THE PLAN'S REVISION. THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, U.S. FOREST SERVICE AND DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, WORKING WITH CONSERVATIONISTS AND COUNTY OFFICIALS, WILL REVISE THE WEST-WIDE ENERGY CORRIDORS PLAN TO FACILITATE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND AVOID ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS, PREVENTING A WEB OF PIPELINES AND POWER LINES FROM BEING BUILT AND GUIDING DEVELOPMENT TO MORE APPROPRIATE LANDS THAT ALSO SUPPORT CLEAN ENERGY. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION - IN CALIFORNIA'S SIERRA NEVADA, MONTANA, IDAHO AND THE NORTHERN FOREST OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY HAS BEEN GATHERING AND ANALYZING SCIENTIFIC DATA ON ECOSYSTEM CHANGE AND WILDLIFE HABITAT NEEDS NECESSARY TO HELP OUR WILD FORESTS ADAPT TO A CHANGING CLIMATE. WE CAN THEN TARGET THOSE TRACTS MOST VITAL TO RECONNECT FRAGMENTED FOREST. IN MAINE, THIS WORK HAS HELPED US LEAD THE CAMPAIGN FOR A PROPOSED NEW NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, THE NATION'S FIRST THAT WILL BE DESIGNED AND MANAGED EXPLICITLY TO HELP PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE. GREAT OUTDOORS WEEK - DURING GREAT OUTDOORS AMERICA WEEK (GO AMERICA WEEK) IN JUNE, WE SAW A DIVERSE GROUP OF OVER 200 ADVOCATES AND OUTDOOR INDUSTRY COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY COME TO WASHINGTON TO PARTICIPATE IN MORE THAN 300 MEETINGS WITH LAWMAKERS AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND LOBBY FOR THE CONSERVATION OF AMERICA'S PUBLIC LANDS. 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        <Explanation>THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND FORM 990S AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON ITS WEBSITE. THE FORM 1023 AND THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>AFTER PREPARATION FOR THE FORM 990 IS COMPLETE, IT IS EXAMINED BY THE VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE FOR ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS. THE DOCUMENT IS THEN PRESENTED TO AND REVIEWED BY THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENTS OF CONSERVATION, MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT, AND FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION. THE AUDIT COMMITTEE WILL THEN MEET TO INSPECT THE 990. SUBSEQUENT TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE MEETING, THE 990 IS POSTED ON THE ORGANIZATION'S INTRANET PAGE FOR REVIEW BY THE GOVERNING COUNCIL BEFORE IT IS FILED.</Explanation>
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        <Explanation>TWS USES DIFFERENT TELEMARKETING VENDORS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS. WE EXPECT GAINS FROM VENDORS WHO DO RENEWAL CALLING SUCH AS COMNET AND VENDORS WHO DO APPEALS TO EXISTING MEMBERSHIP SUCH AS HARRIS. BOTH PRODUCE SUBSTANTIAL, IMMEDIATE NET INCOME. OTHER TELEMARKETING VENDORS SUCH AS YOUR VOICE MEDIA WORK ON DIFFERENT CAMPAIGNS SUCH AS LAPSED REINSTATEMENTS AND SUSTAINER (MONTHLY GIVING) INVITES WHICH ARE, BY DESIGN, BUDGETED AT AN INITIAL NET LOSS. THEY ARE INTENDED TO REINSTATE LAPSED DONORS OR RECRUIT MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS AND NET INCOME IN FUTURE MONTHS AFTER THE CAMPAIGNS ARE OVER.</Explanation>
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        <Identifier>OTHER CHANGES IN NET ASSETS</Identifier>
        <ReturnReference>FORM 990, PART XI, LINE 5</ReturnReference>
        <Explanation>NET UNREALIZED GAINS (LOSSES) ON INVESTMENTS 2,615,894 CHANGE IN VALUE OF SPLIT INTEREST AGREEMENTS 1,153,224 UNCOLLECTIBLE ALLOWANCE ADJUSTMENT 158,166 ------------ TOTAL 3,927,284</Explanation>
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