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Mount Timpanogos Wilderness, UT by Gary Macfarlane

Help reclaim the wild in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness

The U.S. Forest Service claims its Emerald Lake Shelter Reconstruction Project would improve the wilderness character of the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness along the Wasatch Front in Utah. In reality, the agency’s proposal would seriously degrade this rugged, high elevation Wilderness by using helicopters and other motorized equipment to reconstruct a sheet metal Quonset hut that…

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Desolation Canyon Utah Wilderness

Protect the Desolation Canyon Wilderness and the wild Green River

In 2019, Congress designated the Desolation Canyon Wilderness and two Wild and Scenic segments on the Green River in Desolation/Gray Canyons. The Desolation Canyon and Turtle Canyon Wildernesses, surrounding Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs), and other adjoining roadless public and Tribal lands in the Book Cliffs constitute a contiguous million-acre wild region with superlative wildlife and…

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Anaconda Pintler Wilderness Montana

Protect the Anaconda Pintler and Lee Metcalf Wildernesses

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to renew existing outfitter permits in the entire 3.4 million-acre Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest without any environmental analysis, maps indicating where many of the camps are, or disclosure of the impacts from these commercial operations. The agency proposes to use a simple “categorical exclusion” instead of doing an analysis in…

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Grizzly bear

Grizzly bear killed over bait, legal action initiated

On June 10, the same day the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals thought it was too far-fetched that a grizzly bear could be killed over a black bear bait station, news broke that a hunter had just killed a threatened grizzly bear at a bait station on national forest land near the Lower St. Joe River…

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Sonoran Desert National Monument Arizona

Keep livestock out of Wilderness in the Sonoran Desert National Monument

Wilderness Watch is supporting Alternative C, the No Grazing Alternative, in The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Sonoran Desert National Monument Livestock Grazing Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment/Environmental Assessment. This covers 252,460 acres of federal public land in Arizona, with the national monument land north of Interstate 8 including 63,600 acres of the North Maricopa…

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Tule Elk Philip Burton Wilderness

Free tule elk in the Philip Burton Wilderness

The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comment on the Tomales Point Area Plan Environmental Assessment at Point Reyes National Seashore. The NPS should allow rare tule elk to roam free by removing the elk fence on Tomales Point within the Philip Burton Wilderness. Fortunately, thanks in part to public outcry by Wilderness Watch and our supporters,…

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Columbia spotted frog

Poison has no place in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness

Wilderness Watch is working to stop yet another project that would poison a lake and a few miles of streams with rotenone, this time in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness in eastern Oregon. This rugged, high elevation Wilderness was one of the original 54 Wilderness areas designated by the 1964 Wilderness Act. Today, its 69,350 acres…

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Ambler Road Gates Arctic Wilderness

Ambler Road one step closer to being stopped

On April 19, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its final supplemental environmental analysis for the Ambler Road project, a proposal by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to build a 211-mile road across the south slope of Alaska’s Brooks Range, and some of the wildest country on the continent, to facilitate huge mining…

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Everglades Wilderness Florida

The National Park Service needs to protect the wild in the Everglades

Wilderness Watch is urging the National Park Service to develop a strong new Wilderness Stewardship Plan for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness in Everglades National Park in South Florida. Unfortunately, the agency seems headed down the wrong path with its initial ideas. The 1,296,500-acre Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness is the largest Wilderness east of the…

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