Wild Issues

In October 2015, Wilderness Watch submitted scoping comments on a proposed trail planning process for Denali National Park & Preserve in Alaska, most of the which is either designated Wilderness or suitable for designation. We disagree with the Park Service’s rationale for abandoning its “no formal trails policy” and urge the Park Service to instead…

One would be hard-pressed to identify too many things more clearly antithetical to Wilderness than man-made buildings. As defined by the Wilderness Act, “[a] wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is […] an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man,…

On January 7, 2016, Wilderness Watch, joined by Friends of the Clearwater and Western Watersheds Project, filed a complaint in federal court to stop the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game from conducting a major helicopter-supported elk capturing and collaring project in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (FC-RORNW) in central Idaho. The FC-RONRW…

In a bold move that will protect nearly all of the magnificent Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is recommending full wilderness protection for more than 12 million Refuge acres, including the Coastal Plain. Read more…

 

On April 6, 2015, Wilderness Watch was notified by the Manager of the Arctic Refuge of a Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) concerning an intrusive science project proposed for the Arctic Refuge Wilderness in the vicinity of Lake Peters. Read more…