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Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness by Kristine Sowl/USFWS

Wilderness Watch sues Interior for illegal land swap threatening Izembek

On November 12, 2025, Wilderness Watch and our allies sued the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation in U.S. District Court for signing a land exchange agreement with the sole purpose of facilitating the construction of a 13-mile road through the protected tundra and wetlands of the world-renowned Izembek Wilderness and National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

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Mount Timpanogos Wilderness, Utah by Gary Macfarlane

Foolhardy construction project proposed in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness

The Forest Service (FS) is proposing to replace a useless, dilapidated, sheet metal Quonset hut in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness in Utah. The hut was damaged by snow during the winter of 2021-2022. While the FS has sold this as updating the old structure, the agency would construct an entirely new building with a new concrete slab in the Wilderness.

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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Wilderness Watch objects to burning the Boundary Waters

In August 2025, Wilderness Watch submitted a formal objection to the Forest Service (FS) over its massive manipulation project that would set fire to as many as 84,000 acres of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota. The misguided Fernberg Corridor Landscape Management Project has no place in Wilderness and would violate the…

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Goshute Canyon Wilderness by Brian Beffort via Flickr

Helicopter roundup threatens Goshute Canyon and Becky Peak Wildernesses

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to potentially land helicopters in the Goshute Canyon and Becky Peak Wildernesses in Nevada to remove wild horses as part of its Antelope-Triple B Gather project. Wilderness Watch appreciates that the agency is seeking to remedy degradation caused by wild horses, but it must respect the Wilderness with whatever actions it takes, and should consider less traumatic/more humane ways to deal with the wild horse population.

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