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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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia
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Wilderness News and Views

  • Katie in D.C.

    Wilderness Watch goes to Washington

    A week after the Wilderness Act’s 60th Anniversary on September 3, Wilderness Watch was on Capitol Hill educating members of Congress and their staffers about the importance of the Wilderness Act. While the U.S. House passed the Wilderness Act…

  • Eagle cap Wilderness, Oregon by Leon Werdinger

    Please, no diamonds for the Wilderness Act’s 60th anniversary

    The 1964 Wilderness Act celebrates its 60th anniversary on September 3rd. Diamonds are a gift for a 60th wedding anniversary and presumably represent strength, but from a humanitarian lens diamonds have evolved to represent consumption and exploitation. This duality resonates with…

  • Yosemite Wilderness by René Voss

    Is the National Park Service serious about Wilderness?

    When one thinks of wild landscapes in the U.S., national park areas come quickly to mind. Yet, as we celebrate 60 years of the Wilderness Act this year, wild places in too many of even our most iconic parks…

  • Mountain bike by Eric Greenwood/USFS

    Mountain bikers push to ride through Wilderness

    The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set aside a small proportion of public land in America from human intrusion. Some places, the founders said, deserved to be free from motorized, mechanized and other…

Lochsa River, Idaho by Leon Werdinger