<div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)">Hello, </span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)">Join MWA's Shining Mountains Chapter and Bitterroot National Forest Wilderness Ranger Jack Ader on the evening of Feb. 23 to hear about his experience working in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.</span><br style="color:rgb(184,185,186);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px"><br style="color:rgb(184,185,186);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)">Ader has spent four seasons patrolling the West Fork District and will share some personal reflections on the nature and value of Wilderness, as well as how he's worked to preserve the wilderness character of the district.</span><br style="color:rgb(184,185,186);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)"> </span><div style="font-size:14.875000953674316px;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;text-align:center;font-family:Helvetica;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)" dir="auto"><strong style="font-size:0.875rem;font-family:Helvetica;border-color:rgb(80,80,80)">Preserving Wilderness Character in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness<br>with Jack Ader, Wilderness Ranger<br>Tuesday, Feb. 23 • 6:30-8 p.m. MST<br><a href="https://go.wildmontana.org/e/784453/rzVpypu-p2asource-email/3j474/133947559?h=6eSl_-cQb9SQgK6pmvG_8fkxpagQv_qM8BfqC7JHnAg" style="font-size:0.875rem;font-family:Helvetica;border-color:rgb(177,46,28);color:rgb(177,46,28)" target="_blank">Register here</a></strong></div><div style="font-size:0.875rem;word-spacing:1.548309087753296px;font-family:Helvetica;border-color:rgb(80,80,80);color:rgb(80,80,80)" dir="auto"><br>Ader served in the Marines, spending two years in Iraq, before finding work with the National Park Service in the Tetons. Since then he's worked in Idaho and Alaska before being hired as a seasonal wilderness ranger. He patrols the West Fork District, which includes the Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area, one of two Bitterroot WSAs that MWA has been working to protect. Over the past four years he's traveled hundreds of miles on foot and horseback through some of the most remote country in the Lower 48, giving him a unique perspective on Wilderness!<br><br><em style="font-size:0.875rem;font-family:Helvetica;border-color:rgb(80,80,80)">– Mike Young, Shining Mountains Chapter Event Committee</em></div></div>
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