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Doug Scott is a policy director for the Campaign for America's Wilderness, based in Seattle. Doug formerly managed a local environmental group in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, worked at The Wilderness Society, and for 17 years for the Sierra Club, including as conservation director and associate executive director. Doug was involved in enactment of the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (1975), The Endangered American Wilderness Act (1978), the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (Idaho, 1980), The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (1980), and the California Desert Protection Act (California, 1994), among others. He's the author of the new book Our Wilderness: America's Common Ground and The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage through the Wilderness Act