Hold a juried art show at your local gallery. Invited artists can visit one of the nearest wilderness areas in 2013, and then produce their art for a show in Sept. 2014.

In 2013, have a photo calendar contest with winning photos revealed in the 2014 Wilderness Calendar. All photos submitted to the contest could be part of a photo exibit, at a venue or online during the year. Then, the essay or a poetry contest could correspond with the calendar's photos.

Have each chapter develop a photo exhibit with 50 images (one for each year) that celebrates wilderness in their area. This exhibit travels throughout the year to museums, schools and galleries. A collateral book could be created and sold as well.

Require all employees in units which administer Wilderness to spend the day maintaining trails, picking up trash, or rehabilitating recreation sites.

Develop a traveling exhibit and celebration to coordinate with local community events. The exhibit would be a ready resource limiting the demands on individual communities, yet allow for local stories and flavors to be shared.

Create a news aggregator site that collects news about wilderness from wide and disparate sources. A one-stop site that would highlight news of the wild, and could be used to generate further stories, and enthusiasm.

Create a series of podcasts about "what wilderness means to me" from a broad cross-section of people--backapckers on a trail, people in Central Park, celebs & politicians, etc.

Produce Chautauqua (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua ) educational camps and fairs about wilderness in major centers around the country with talks and presentations by Ken Burns, Terry Tempest Williams, etc., living history by Lee Stetson (John Muir), Dr. Clay Jenkinson (Teddy Roosevelt), a Gifford Pinchot living history artist, etc., with artists works, natural history presentations, music, etc., hosted by employees of the four agencies of the Natl. Wilderness Preservation System to occur during the months of August and September 2014.

Create and disseminate curriculums to identify and explain the crucial roles wilderness will play in the next 50 years to balance global natural processes with human-influenced climate change.

Highlights of the last 50 years in wilderness stewardship/management and what the next 50 years will bring.

What wilderness means to you and why it is important. All films under 10 minutes.

Create an online logo and poster contest, using Flickr.com to facilitate entries. Have the public vote for the winner.

Organize local wilderness walks within each agency (BLM, FWS, FS, NPS) and reach out to local community organizations. Use meetup.com to organize people and locations.