Excerpt from 'The Quivira Coalition's New Program - Conservation and Ranching Leadership and Youth (CARLY):

"In an article to be published in this winter's University of New Mexico's Natural Resources Journal, Courtney White, Executive Director of the Quivira Coalition, writes: 'My twins, Sterling and Olivia, are nine. When I was their age, the Wilderness Act was four years old. The cement on the national Interstate Highway system had barely dried. We had not reached the moon yet... When I was their age, the gradient of progress still sloped upward without discernable consequence. The world was our oyster. Gas was cheap... Anything seemed possible."