{"id":1068,"date":"2013-05-22T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2013-05-23T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T02:57:56","slug":"save-the-date-9th-annual-gila-river-festival-september-19-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gilaconservation.org\/wp\/save-the-date-9th-annual-gila-river-festival-september-19-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date: 9th Annual Gila River Festival September 19 – 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grfbg\"<\/a>SAVE THE DATE!<\/b><\/p>\n

9th Annual Gila River Festival<\/b><\/p>\n

The Gila River Is In Our Hands!<\/b><\/p>\n

September 19 – 22, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

FULL SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION AVAILABLE IN EARLY JULY<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 9th<\/sup> Annual Gila River Festival is all about changes, choices, and community empowerment. We\u2019ve all read \u2013 or tried to ignore \u2013 the alarming predictions about climate change in the Southwest. A healthy response would be to acknowledge that obstacles present us with a chance to break with the past and to steward our environment in smarter and more responsible ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, do no harm\u201d should be our oath to keep the water in the Gila River and stabilize its health. Second, we have opportunities \u2013 should we choose to accept them \u2013 to restore degraded systems and to build resiliency into our natural and human communities.<\/p>\n

At the Gila River Festival, we\u2019ll talk about the prognosis for future climate change \u2013 higher temperatures, lower precipitation \u2013 and how we can act as a community to moderate the expected impacts and balance the needs of the environment while also meeting our future water needs. Restoring our streams is a vital way to build resiliency into our wild lands, as well as our urban communities, and will help ensure that aquatic and riparian ecosystems survive climate change with minimal damage.<\/p>\n

Gila River Festival keynote speaker, Kenneth Brower, learned about environmental issues \u2013 such as misguided dam projects \u2013 from his father, the great conservationist David Brower. Together, they worked on many Sierra Club publications, which increased public awareness of the nation\u2019s wild places and the need to protect them.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Brower\u2019s most recent book, The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower,<\/i> honors his father on the centennial of his birth. His new book on climate change will be published next year.<\/p>\n

At the festival, Kenneth Brower will talk about how building resiliency into our riparian ecosystems is one of the most important actions we can take to prepare for coming changes. Diverting river water is the antithesis of resiliency, and it greatly increases the potential for species extinctions. As Brower well knows, dams and diversions have other unintended consequences as well. And just as Kenneth Brower did, we, too, can learn from his dad\u2019s impressive career as the \u201cgodfather of the modern environmental movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

We are the ones we have been waiting for. The Gila River Is In Our Hands.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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