Roadless areas are great, we can protect them better
Photo: Pioneer Mountains Roadless Area by Howie Wolke
A Century of Wilderness for the Boundary Waters
Photo: Kevin Proescholdt
Another win for Izembek Wilderness and its wildlife
Photo: Kristine Sowl/USFWS
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Wilderness News and Views
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Roadless areas are great, we can protect them better
In these coming days many in the environmental community will remind us why our roadless areas are great. And they are. While the National Wilderness Preservation System is 112 million acres, the nation’s roadless inventory adds about 60 million…
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A Century of Wilderness for the Boundary Waters
One hundred years ago, on September 17, 1926, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine provided the first wilderness designation for the area later re-named as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest. While a…
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You defended the Washakie Wilderness!
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized.
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If a tree falls in the Wilderness, will we hear (about) it?
The U.S. Forest Service has approved a tree-cutting project in the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming behind closed doors. Does it promote a wilderness ethic? Certainly not. Will it violate the Wilderness Act? Most likely. Will the public know the…
Wilderness Experienced Stories
“Wilderness Experienced” is our shared stories and musings about recent experiences in our nation’s Wildernesses.
Photo: Leon Werdinger
