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America's Redrock Wilderness
Clayton joined the campaign
to save the redrock canyons and wildlands of southern Utah in 1995 on a
Sierra Club activist outing. Inspired by hiking on the threatened wildlands Daughenbaugh returned to Illinois and became a founder and co-chair of the Illinois Task Force for Utah Wilderness. In 1997 the Task Force enlisted Illinois Senator Richard Durbin as chief sponsor of "America's Redrock Wilderness Act". For more, read "The Tapping of a Utah Champion" below. Clayton has also served on the Sierra Club's National Wildlands Campaign Committee, it's National Utah Wilderness Task Force, for a year on the Chicago Group of the Sierra Club's Executive Committee, and has volunteered and worked for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
"Pressure on to open public lands for drilling"
Pantagraph, July 15, 2007
"Natural Heritage Threatened"
Charleston Times-Courier, Earth Week of 2003
"The Tapping of a Utah Champion"
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Summer of 1997 newsletter
"Activist Outing Program Pays Off- Utah Wilderness Launched in Senate"
The Planet, July/August 1997
Utah Task Force Cosponsor Lobby "Model"
Three steps to begin your state support group, then sustain it so that you can
turn your politicians into heros.
"America's Public Lands at Risk" Tour
Working for the Sierra Club, Clayton toured midwest and southwest states
in 2004 & 2005. The tour focused on
damage to public lands from energy production, the strategies used to promote the
exploitation of public lands for private profit, and the actions citizens
can take to conserve Creation's natural heritage. It also discussed how the
public lands are an embodiment of our national democracy: all citizens are
equal owners and the government is legally mandated to provide for public
participation in land management decisions. The text of the presentation
can be found here.
"Local Sierra Club chapter takes up topic of endangerment of public land"
The Daily Times, Nov 6, 2005
"Sierra Club addresses drilling plans"
Daily Illini, March 17, 2005
"The old Rough Rider driving a white pickup?"
The Steamboat Pilot & Today, April 11, 2005
"Activist: Lands are in danger"
Vail Daily, April 28, 2005
"Faith to help spread Sierra Club's word"
Arizona Daily Star, November 5, 2005
"Sierra Club speaker says nation turning its back on conservation"
Herald & Review, September 21, 2005
Groundswell Sierra
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When anti-immigrant forces sought to take
over the Sierra Club in its 2004 Board of Directors election a group of Club
leaders organized Groundswell Sierra to defend America's oldest and most
powerful environmental organization. They hired Clayton to manage their
campaign. Groundswell's slate of five candidates defeated the take over
groups slate by a 10 - 1 margin. The election turnout more than doubled the
previous record for a Sierra Club Board election.