Mission Statement: "'In wilderness is the preservation of the world' (Thoreau). Therefore, we NOW offer to the world a high-value ultralight personal toilet kit to make it simple for people to manage their own poop while visiting wilderness/backcountry, and thus assure the preservation of the wilderness and by extension the world."

We've collected, and will make it available to anyone and everyone who has an interest in wilderness issues, a great deal of evidence that proves the health of wilderness/backcountry impacts the health of people. In other words, if we stop leaving our poop and toilet paper on the ground in wilderness/backcountry, we should see an improvement in people's overall health.

Over several years of study and reading a great deal of information, much of it published and distributed by the U.N. and other global organizations, we're convinced more and more each day that Thoreau's quote is not some romantic's blurb. Rather, it should make us pause and think about what we're doing when we visit these remaining wildernesses and backcountry places. They ARE in danger from our ignorances and irresponsible behavior toward our own body wastes.

We all read or listen to issues related to "the environment." School children learn about the various Acts passed by Congress relative to "the environment." Such legislation as the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts have substantially improved the lives of millions of Americans. Health concerns created by a polluted "environment" went from the radical left to mainstream in just 20 years. But it took World War II to make it obvious that "the environment" was badly polluted and something had to be done to better it or people would continue to get sick and die from it.

There were epidemics of water-related diseases in many parts of America during the 1930s and 1940s, and almost everywhere in Europe up until the 1980s. As factories by the hundreds of thousands cranked out armaments and the other provisions of war they also freely polluted the air and water sources for thousands of miles in all directions. After the war as these factories converted to producing so-called peacetime products, they continued unabated to pollute the air and water sources. Finally the Water Pollution Control Act was passed in 1948.

The Act authorized the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (a relatively new agency) to prepare comprehensive programs for eliminating or reducing the pollution of interstate waters and tributaries and improving the sanitary condition of surface and underground waters. "We have to stop pooping in our nest," said the Surgeon General at the time (his use of the word "poop" offended thousands).

Yet, however successful the tens of thousands of factories were in converting over to peacetime production, the Water Pollution Control Act had tiny teeth and the factories continued to pollute the air and water. We continued pooping in our own nest. People continued to get sick and die and doctors just shook their heads as they wrote out the death certificates. Only after the Water Pollution Control Act was amended in 1972 (just 35 years ago) did it begin to acquire the bite that allowed the various agencies to levee stiffer fines against offenders. It also took on a new name, the "Clean Water Act." All the years of stalling and lobbying and bickering and the mostly self-serving influences of individual states were finally written out of the Act. The U.S. Government was finally in charge of the air and water of America - and on a fully proscribed legal basis.