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1st Wilderness Conference
April 7-8, 1949, in Berkeley, California
Topic: The High Country of the Sierra Nevada

2nd Wilderness Conference
March 30-31, 1951, in Berkeley, California
Topic: various wilderness issues

3rd Wilderness Conference
May 15-16, 1953, in Oakland, California
Topic: various wilderness issues

4th Wilderness Conference
March 18-19, 1955, in San Francisco, California
Topic: various wilderness issues

5th Wilderness Conference
March 15-16, 1957, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Wildlands in our Civilization*

6th Wilderness Conference
March 20-21, 1959, in San Francisco, California
Topic: The Meaning of Wilderness to Science*

7th Wilderness Conference
April 7-8, 1961, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Wilderness, America's Living Heritage*

8th Wilderness Conference
March 8-10, 1963, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Tomorrow's Wilderness*

9th Wilderness Conference
April 2-3, 1965, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Wilderness in a Changing World*

10th Wilderness Conference
April 7-8, 1967, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Wilderness and the Quality of Life*

11th Wilderness Conference
March 14-15, 1969, in San Francisco, California
Topic: Wilderness: the Edge of Knowledge*

12th Wilderness Conference
Sept. 24-26, 1971, in Washington, DC
Topic: Action for Wilderness*

13th Wilderness Conference
Oct. 6-7, 1973, in Boulder, Colorado
Topic: Wilderness - Whose Problem?

14th Wilderness Conference
June 5-8, 1975, in New York, New York
Topic: Earthcare, Global Protection of Natural Areas**

City Care
April 8-11, 1979, in Detroit, Michigan
Topic: The Urban Environment***

1st International Assembly
June 30-July 4, 1983, in Snowmass, Colorado
Topic: The Politics of Conservation

2nd International Assembly
July 2-5, 1987, in Vail, Colorado
Topic: Shaping the Environmental Future

3rd International Assembly
July 6-9, 1989, in Ann Arbor, MI, & Windsor, Ontario
Topic: Action for Global Environment

Centennial Symposium
May 1, 1992, Berkeley, California
Topic: Club's 100th Anniversary

One-Club Conference
Aug. 18-20, 2000, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Topic: Structural/Policy Issues

Sierra Summit
Sept. 9-11, 2005, in San Francisco, California
Topics: various

* These wilderness conferences each resulted in a volume of proceedings. The first of these covered the first five conferences.

** There were two volumes for this conference, a program volume and one of proceedings

*** These proceedings were a slender pamphlet


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