Ríos Patagónicos In the Stateside News

I am barely a week back into the stateside scene and the results of our global community labor to protect wild rivers in Patagonia are being published in major daily newspapers in the United States, this just one week after the New York Times published their opinion piece against the possibility of damming the Baker and Pascua Rivers. This is what I like to see!! Some real momentum to protect Patagonia from needless industrialization.

On Sunday, Lonely Planet writer Carolyn McCarthy was published in the Boston Globe with her article Little Seen and Untamed River Stirs Patagonia. This is a very readable travel section article with an excellent and breathtaking finish. Carolyn does a great job of capturing the International Rivers campaign and the local perceptions of the dam proposals. She accompanied us on the International Rivers sponsored delegation--and we really wanted Carolyn to come on the hike but schedules did not permit it.

With all this great press and momentum for our campaign one might wonder how many more tricks we have up our sleeves--but we have only but started the campaign. This past Monday, to add punch to the campaign media strategy, our colleague Colin Barraclough had his article published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Chile Plans to Dam Patagonia Wilderness is the title, and the read is equally impactful. Of course, as the author of this blog and one of the organizers of the Pascua Expedition Project, I am not able to hide that Colin came with us on the hike. He was a key and important element to the good style, fun, and great safety that we maintained on our expedition. I am picturing Colin now, suffering in Buenos Aires (sufrimiento!!) and poetically reliving the journey as he word smithed his story together.

Ahhhh! Patagonia!

Tomanse un buen mate mis amigos!

By the way, the photos are by Colin, from our trip to explore the wild Pascua!!