Donate to Kim Crumbo's Fund for the Wild
Honoring Kim Crumbo and continuing his urgent work to save our wild planet...
"Nature is the common language that we have as human beings..." —Kim Crumbo, in The Land We Defend
Family, friends, colleagues, fellow travelers on wild rivers and trails, and the conservation community are overwhelmed with the loss of our beloved Kim Crumbo, on a backcountry canoe trip with his brother Mark Crumbo O'Neill in Yellowstone National Park in mid-September.
Kim was on fire in 2021, thrilled with the opportunities unfolding for securing enduring protections for the wild places and creatures he so loved. All this was happening in the context of the global initiative to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030, on the way to answering the renowned Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson's inspiring call to action in his seminal book Half Earth.
The meticulously detailed proposals Kim drafted, and the daily emails to networks of people and organizations swept us all up in his tide of 'conditional optimism' for humanity and the living world, ever reminding us that while 'history is on our side, time is not'. His expansive proposal for a Mogollon Rim Wildlife Corridor, which engaged so many of us of late, started with this moving quote:
"I still believe the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but nobody is going to do the hard bending, if not you and me."
-Susan Rice
In the only way we know to begin the healing, the people of The Rewilding Institute, Wild Arizona, Project Coyote, and Lobos of the Southwest have pledged to carry Kim's legacy forward together, and get back to work with that sense of urgency, dedication, and camaraderie we need to 'do the hard bending'.
Contributions to this memorial fund, graciously inspired and approved by Kim's family, will be shared equally between our 4 groups, to attain the on-the-ground protections in Kim's insightful, ecologically and culturally sound, and achievable proposals. Because we have to.
Our dear conservation friend Danny Giovale is helping us launch Kim Crumbo's Fund for the Wild with a $10,000 matching challenge that will double your caring donations until the match is met.
If you would like to contribute a larger donation, make a grant, or create a match challenge of your own, please email katrina@wildarizona.org for more information and options, thank you.
Thank you for your support in memory of Kim Crumbo 💚
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