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Alpine Lakes Wilderness Walter Siegmund

A Better Plan for Trail Work in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness

The Forest Service (FS) has made a good decision for the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington due to pressure from Wilderness Watch and others. The agency’s original Talapus Lake trail reconstruction project included using helicopters to ferry several dozen loads of materials and using motorized rock drills to reroute the three-mile trail to Talapus Lake….

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Red Rock Lakes Wilderness

WW Stops Commercial Logging in Red Rock Lakes Wilderness

In August 2015, Wilderness Watch convinced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to cancel plans for a commercial logging operation in the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness in Montana. The project had been planned as part of a larger fuels reduction effort at the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, located in the Centennial Valley…

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Los Vidrios-The illegal road

Los Vidrios—The illegal road

In 2015, a local Wilderness Watch member, Fred Goodsell, sounded the alarm that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) had designated an illegal vehicle route as an “administrative road” through the Cabeza-Prieta Wilderness in southwest Arizona. The route, known as Los Vidrios, was reportedly created for and used as a smuggling route for many…

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