Who is CWCS?

[BDub]

Who is CWCS?

Conservationists with Common Sense (CWCS) is a true grassroots organization!

CWCS is a 501c(3) non-profit educational organization established in 1989 to disseminate accurate information about public lands and environmental issues.

CWCS’s Mission Statement is: To educate the public in order to preserve reasonable access to and sensible, multiple-use recreation of public lands and waters (including motorized uses) in Northeastern Minnesota, especially the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), with care for the environment.

CWCS Supports:
1. Reasonable access to and sensible, multiple-use recreation of public lands and waters. Public lands should be managed in a manner conducive to supporting a wide variety of traditional recreational uses including: hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing, camping, hiking, biking, trapping, skiing, dog sledding, snowmobiling, and ATV use as well as forest management. This does not mean that every use at all times is desirable. It does mean seeking ways to accommodate various user groups based on common sense and mutual respect.

2. The use of common sense, the best available scientific data, objective analysis, and broad public input on the part of government agencies and elected officials when making and implementing land management and environmental policies.

3. Continued multiple-use of our National Forests and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and the return of trucks to Four Mile Portage, as they have been on Prairie and Trout Lake Portages. (A 70-year tradition, trucks were returned to these two portages in 1999 after a seven-year absence)

4. Caring for our natural environment. A healthy natural environment, including clean air, water and soil is essential to present and future generations.

5. Being environmentally, economically and socially responsible. The human factor must be put back into land management policies. The needs of local communities and all users can and must be balanced with the conservation of sensitive natural environments. Common Sense is needed in addressing economic development for the betterment of all.

For more info, go to: www.cwcs.org   Â   
CWCS
P O Box 1046       
Virginia, MN   55792

[Spinach]

Thank you very much Nancy. Dr Bob and Smallmouthguide have spoken very highly on CWCS in the past couple of years.

Welcome to MNO, and thanks for this post.

[Bufflehead]

Good to have folks like you in our corner

Thanks for bringing all the great things your org. is doing/supporting to our members/viewers, by posting on MNO

Thanks, Bufflehead

[Dr.Bob]

Hi Nancy.  Glad you made it!