WHALLONSBURG — North Country adventurer, conservationist and rewilding advocate John Davis will speak about issues affecting Adirondack wildlife at the Whallonsburg Grange at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The event, sponsored by the Adirondack Garden Club, is free and open to the public. Davis, rewilding advocate for the Adirondack Council and wildway scout for the Rewilding Institute, works for the establishment of protected natural corridors allowing wildlife to journey freely along their historic migration routes, and for the restoration of wolves and mountain lions to their native Adirondack habitats.
Davis serves on multiple conservation boards, and has been instrumental in the establishment of the Split Rock Wildway, a protected pathway of wooded lands connecting Lake Champlain with the High Peaks.
In 2011, Davis completed TrekEast, a 7,600-mile muscle-powered exploration of wilder parts of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada to promote restoration and protection of an Eastern Wildway. Davis’ book about the adventure, “Big, Wild, and Connected: Scouting an Eastern Wildway from Florida to Quebec” was published in 2012.
In 2013, Davis trekked from Sonora, Mexico, north along the Spine of the Continent as far as southern British Columbia, Canada, again scouting rewilding routes in North America and promoting habitat connections, big wild cores, and apex predators — all of which would be well served by fuller protection of the Western Wildway he explored.
Davis has also edited multiple conservation publications, including anthologies featuring essays, poems and art by leading advocates for the natural world.
The Adirondack Garden Club was founded in 1928 to aid in the protection of native plants and birds, and to encourage civic planting and the conservation of natural resources. Its purpose is the conservation of the plants, shrubs and trees native to the Adirondack region, and the making of both wild and cultivated gardens characteristic of the environment in which they are placed, the furthering of the cultivation of gardens throughout the Adirondack area, and the promotion of civic conservation and beautification.
More information is available on the club’s website, adirondackgardenclub.com.