Wilderness author and activist Doug Scott will speak at the Dauphin County East Shore Area Library in Harrisburg in support of the Citizens’ Wilderness Proposal for Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.

Scott will appear at 7 p.m. on May 31 in the library’s Meeting Room A.

The speech is free and open to the public, and is being cosponsored by Friends of Allegheny Wilderness, the Pennsylvania Division Izaak Walton League of America, Audubon Pennsylvania, and the Governor Pinchot Group of the Pennsylvania Sierra Club.

Scott is the author of The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting our National Heritage through the Wilderness Act, which takes a look at how America has preserved more than 100 million acres of diverse wilderness areas in 44 states as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Scott is currently the policy director for the Campaign for America's Wilderness.

He will speak about the need to permanently protect the remaining wild areas of the Allegheny National Forest for future generations as an important part of the multiple-use regime of the forest. A question and answer session with the audience will follow.

Come learn what you can do to help save the last remaining wilderness in the Allegheny National Forest!

For more information call 814-723-0620 or email alleghenyfriends@earthlink.net .

5/25/2007