The Wilderness Society (United States)
The Wilderness Society is an American non-profit land conservation organization that is dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands in the United States. They advocate for the designation of federal wilderness areas and other protective designations, such as for national monuments. They support balanced uses of public lands, and advocate for federal politicians to enact various land conservation and balanced land use proposals. The Wilderness Society also engages in a number of ancillary activities, including education and outreach, and hosts one of the most valuable collections of Ansel Adams photographs at their headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Founders at Old Rag Mountain, VA in 1946
Leopold and Murie in 1946
Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams (seated) at an event celebrating 50 years of wilderness, 2014
Ute Mountain and upper Rio Grande gorge
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Adams c. 1950
Kodak No 1 Brownie Model B box camera, the first model Adams owned
Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park (1921)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California (1927)