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Bucks Lake and Ishi Wilderness

In 1975, representatives from BEC, North State Wilderness and Sierra Club began efforts to get Ishi, Bucks Lake (Lassen Park), and Chips Creek designated as wilderness areas. As an umbrella organization, BEC used its newsletter Homegrown to encourage readers to write letters to Congress, and assisted the North State Wilderness Committee with urgent action letters. In response to these efforts, thousands of people wrote to Congress requesting the establishment of the wilderness areas. In 1984, the 4,100-acre Ishi area and the 1,900-acre Bucks Lake area were designated as wilderness.

"Bucks Lake and Ishi Wilderness became designated wilderness areas because of BEC's effort," said Wes Dempsey, a representative of the Sierra Club, and one of BEC's first board of directors.

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