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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See how we’re defending America’s National Wilderness Preservation System.
Wilderness News and Views
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Wilderness ranger speaks out about February wave of firings, impacts to Wilderness
NOTE: In February, the Trump administration fired approximately 3,400 U.S. Forest Service employees and 1,000 National Park Service employees, including wilderness rangers and trail crew members across the country. Shortly after termination, some wilderness rangers reached out to Wilderness Watch…
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Conflating recreation with conservation is not Wilderness preservation
By Mason Parker and Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch In the final hours of the 118th Congress, the Senate took up and passed the EXPLORE Act, which former President Biden signed into law on January 6. Some of our members…
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Wilderness Watch protests BLM’s proposed tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness
With a long-standing drought throughout the American West, exacerbated by climate change, some wilderness managers have come under pressure to try to prevent future wildfires in Wilderness from burning, or from burning so hotly…
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The next 60 years: Elevating earth’s community of life
This fall, Wilderness Watch and other wilderness advocates gathered at the feet of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, in the trees and away from computer screens, to reflect on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act and talk about where we…
Wilderness Experienced Stories
“Wilderness Experienced” is our shared stories and musings about recent experiences in our nation’s Wildernesses.
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