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author cheryl strayed’s 2012 memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, recounts the author’s thousand-mile solo hike from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, to Washington State. Something elemental in Strayed’s story—about nature as a kind of medicine, a curative dose of perspective and solace—rang so intuitively true to readers that the book sold more than a million copies and inspired a soon-to-be-released feature film starring Reese Witherspoon.


At The Trust for Public Land, our staff passed around a copy from colleague to colleague until the pages were dog-eared and stained. Here was a lovingly told account of how the Pacific Crest Trail—which The Trust for Public Land works to protect—profoundly altered the course of a young woman’s life. No survey, study, or report could be a better rallying cry for saving land and creating parks.


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