Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning

Patrick Millegan’s bequest
honors Harvey and Betty Manning

July 7, 2015

Dear Tom,

This note is difficult to write, as it represents the last wishes of my beloved partner and friend, Patrick Millegan. He died just over a year ago while climbing the North Twin Sister, a mountain he dearly loved. He had made the climb at least 6 times in the past.

He was at his happiest in the mountains, and of all the places in the world he explored he had a special passion for his “home” range the North Cascades. This bequest represents his commitment to protecting and preserving that which he so loved. He wished that it be in honor of Harvey & Betty Manning, who were close family friends when he was growing up; their own zest and encouragement of his exploring the outdoors is an inspiration to us all.

Sincerely,

Cyndia

Patrick Millegan’s $25,000 bequest to NCCC will be invested in ongoing advocacy on behalf of the North Cascades.

The new Fall 2015 issue of The Wild Cascades is now online!

The new Fall issue of TWC is now online:

http://www.northcascades.org/wordpress/the-wild-cascades

NCCC Actions, March to September 2015
Lawsuit prompts Forest Service pullback on allowing ATVs on roads
Helicopter assault
Granite Falls motocross project halted — maybe defeated
NCCC’s Millers’ pioneering work to save Big Beaver Valley gets international attention
A bad idea gets worse
Is transplanting grizzly bears to the Cascades really a good idea?
In Memoriam: Betty Manning
Tributes to Betty
Cascade Rambles: Into the North Fork Canyon
Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning
North Cascades Glacier Climate Project 2015 — Lower Curtis Glacier
The corvid’s eye
Remove a racist slur from Stehekin

Harvey Manning’s final unpublished works are released by his family for the first time!

NCCC is honored to present Harvey’s final written works, a series of manuscripts that were still unfinished and unpublished at the time of his passing. Presented courtesy of his family, they are in the condition in which they were found, most typewritten, some showing editing markup, all entirely unique and never before available to the public.

Here’s how one box of his work appeared before scanning. 

Click the links below to read them in PDF format. 
(Note that the content of these documents does not necessarily reflect the opinion of NCCC now or at the time they were written – they express only the opinions of their author, Harvey Manning.)

Five PartsAsleep Not in the Deep
The Decline and Fall of Backpacking
Fighting Forewords
Gods, Devils, and Wilderness Pedestrians
Summary of the Mt. Hornblower Hearings
How We Saved Mother Milk
Mountain Bum
Mt. Everest & Me
In The Long Run
On The Trail Of The Milky Way
Pippa Passes
Terror, Love, Adventure, Prayer
The World of Work
This Petty Place
Unk is Coming Back

The Wild Cascades - Fall 2015, coming to members soon!

Here's a preview of what to expect in the upcoming issue, soon to arrive in NCCC members' mailboxes:

THE WILD CASCADES  Fall 2015

Lawsuit prompts Forest Service pullback on allowing ATVs on roads
Helicopter assault
Granite Falls motocross project halted — maybe defeated
NCCC’s Millers’ pioneering work to save Big Beaver Valley gets international attention
A bad idea gets worse
Is transplanting grizzly bears to the Cascades really a good idea?
In Memoriam:  Betty Manning
Cascade Rambles: Into the North Fork Canyon
Patrick Millegan’s bequest honors Harvey and Betty Manning
North Cascades Glacier Climate Project 2015 — Lower Curtis Glacier
The corvid’s eye
Remove a racist slur from Stehekin


ALSO... please note that the comment period for the "Helicopter assault" on the Cascades proposed by the Army had been extended again - to Nov. 3rd! So you still have 10 days to send your comments. See our previous post on the topic for info on how to tell the Army to find a better place to practice.

Remove a racist slur from Stehekin

Hi,

Stehekin, in the North Cascades, is a place close to our hearts, one that our founders fought to protect for all to enjoy.  Let's remove a racist slur from its maps and trail signs and make it a more welcoming place for all.

I signed a petition to Sen. Patty Murray (WA-1), Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA-2), and President Barack Obama which says:

"In 2008, Washington State officially changed the name of Coon Lake in the North Cascades mountain range to Howard Lake, to honor the African-American miner, Wilson Howard, who staked claims there 125 years ago.


But the National Park Service and the federal government have refused to agree to the state's name change, insisting on maintaining a name that is universally recognized as pejorative.


We urge Sens. Murray and Cantwell, the White House and the U.S. Department of the Interior to right this wrong - stop maintaining a racist name and align the federal government with Washington State's decision to honor Wilson Howard."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/coon-lake-tell-obama?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=1628667

Thanks!

NCCC board

We regret to inform you of the passing of Betty Manning

Betty Manning passed away September 1st. She was the editor of The Wild Cascades for many years, and a staunch advocate for northwest wilderness. Her presence will be sorely missed.

Claudia Manning said,  "My mother ... almost died from pneumonia as a child and it left her with the use of only one lung, yet still she climbed, hiked, traveled, was an amazing artist, editor and went back to school when she was 45 to get her masters degree in librarianship."

Here are some photos of Betty, courtesy of Claudia.

Betty and one of the Manning children playing recorders in the alpine Cascades, ca. 1965

One of the last photos of Betty before her passing.

NCI and NCCC featured in Seattle Times

Ron Judd writes about NCI and NCCC in the Seattle Times:

"The first thing students do after unpacking their bags as the learning center is to take a stroll over to the top of massive Diablo Dam, where a shaky-kneed glance over the side is all it takes to be impressed by the immensity the canyon in which they stand - and the similar scale of what man has wrought here.

"We want to teach them about their role as human animals/ how they affect ecosystems," says Chris Kiser, the Mountain School's program coordinator.

"Some of that ethic can be traced to the group's roots: Among the early cheerleaders of NCI were members of the North Cascades Conservation Council, the prime pushers for establishment of North Cascades National Park in 1968.  These were not fringe, lawsuit-happy environmentalists.  They were old-school, Northwest greenies who supported the Harvey Manning/Mountaineers notion that wild. public lands are best saved by getting people into them -- preferably by a means no more complicated than a Vibram sole, mind you.  the idea was to build multi-generational-constitutencies to protect them.

"This legacy has, in many ways, been passed to NCI where it shines brightly from its Diablo Lake treed cathedral."

http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/mountain-school-makes-the-magic-of-the-wilderness-real-for-kids/!