Through a generous $100,000 gift, the Pope family established Broads’ first-ever endowment, the Wilderness Defense Fund.
Its purpose is to increase our capacity to initiate legal actions, arbitration, or mediation to protect the integrity of Wilderness.
The Pope family intends to build the endowment to $1 million over ten years, and Broads will draw annual income from these permanently invested funds to defend existing wilderness.
We extend our gratitude to the Pope family for helping us ensure that wilderness areas are protected from “an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization”—exactly as the authors of the Wilderness Act intended.