Wilderness Watch, allies sue Interior for illegal land swap that threatens Izembek Wilderness
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Keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild
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Keeping Wilderness Wild
Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’s 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
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Wilderness News and Views
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RIP NEPA
Our leaders are letting the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) die. But, maybe that’s okay. It’s time for a National Environmental Protection Act.
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Trump administration attacks iconic wildlands in Alaska
On October 23, the Trump administration launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska, places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to safeguard for decades.
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Torching the “Range of Light”
Moved by the radiance of sunbursts bouncing between granite peaks, John Muir once called the Sierras the “Range of Light.” Now, a century later, millions of acres of Wilderness and wild forest in the Range of Light are under…
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Make a commitment to our shared wild places today
In 1989, I became a wilderness ranger with the Forest Service and spent 25 years working in the Selway-Bitterroot, Anaconda Pintler, and River of No Return Wildernesses of Montana and Idaho.
Wilderness Experienced Stories
“Wilderness Experienced” is our shared stories and musings about recent experiences in our nation’s Wildernesses.
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