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THE COVER SHOT

Wild

IN MEMORIAM

LETTERS

CELEBRATING 200

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​A BEAUTIFUL PLANET • In a guest reappearance as a columnist for our milestone 200th issue, Bob Brown recounts some of his recent travels and, in doing so, reminds us of the simple beauties that make our planet worth fighting for.

CELEBRATING CARE • Looking back over 45 years of Wild, of community, inspiration, education and love of the natural world.

ONCE BITTEN • Dangerous things come in small packages.

A WILD NICHE • The demise of print is widely assumed, but smaller, quality mags like Wild are still flourishing. A little help from readers, however, can go a long way.

DESTRUCTION BEHIND LOCKED GATES: THE SECRET ATTACK ON TASMANIA’S WENTWORTH HILLS • Precious forests in the vicinity of the world-famous Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair NP are under assault from logging operations.

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SAVING THE KOALA • Koalas are under severe threat along Australia’s east coast. Now a vast, new protected area, the Great Koala National Park, has been proposed in NSW to safeguard the iconic species. The problem is, not only do we need the NSW Government to live up to its promises, we need private landowners nearby to assist with koala-habitat connectivity.

THE POWER OF WORDS: REMEMBERING WHEN WILD WAS A STARTUP • Michael Collie was 23 years old when he met Wild’s founding editor, Chris Baxter, while out ski touring. Little did he know it was an event that would not only change his life, it would change the entire Australian outdoors community. Here, he reflects on those early days, and on how the published word means everything.

A LETTER FROM SUE BAXTER JARRATT • Sue Baxter Jarratt was the wife of Wild’s deceased founder, Chris Baxter. Here’s a letter she sent to us celebrating Chris’s legacy and our 200th issue.

A FEW ADDITIONAL DETAILS FROM MICHAEL ON WILD’S EARLY DAYS

A DIRTY DOZEN OF THE WILDEST WILD SHOTS • For forty-five years now, from the very second issue of the magazine, readers have been sending Wild irreverent, silly, daring, and sometimes just flat out crazy images for our Wild Shot section. Here, we feature a dirty dozen of some of the best Wild Shots ever, as chosen by me. (Hey, I’m the editor, I get to make the call on these things. I’ll add that as a young grommet buying Wild, I always turned first to see what the Wild Shot was before I started reading anything else in the mag. I hope that’s still true for a few young grommets today.)

PERSPECTIVES: THAT’S NOT HOW I REMEMBER IT • There are two sides to every story, or so we’re told.

LOVING THE LAND TO DEATH • The pandemic sent millions of new visitors flooding into America’s wild places. Could the strategies the US has used be a timely lesson for Australia as our population heads toward thirty million?

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LESSONS IN OVERNIGHT SNOWSHOEING • You don’t need to be a backcountry skier to camp in the snow overnight; snowshoes are a great way to access the winter mountains. But it does help if you know what you’re doing.

HOW MSC MAKES A CONDITIONS REPORT • Every day during the Australian winter, Mountain Safety Collective produces a backcountry conditions report to give snowsports enthusiasts the information they need to travel safely beyond resort boundaries. Here’s what’s involved in producing each and every report.

WINTER CAMPING GEAR • Wondering what gear you need for Aussie snow camping? Wild Earth Ambassador...