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Keeping Wilderness WILD!
BLM Plan Would Degrade the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness
By Gary Macfarlane
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft environmental assessment for public input on its proposal to increase visitor use in fragile areas of the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness in Arizona, most specifically the Wave and Coyote Buttes North. These areas are almost exclusively day use, being only a few miles hike roundtrip. Read more...
Hell No to Helicopters in Hellsgate
By Cyndi Tuell
They say the idea of Wilderness needs no defense, but that Wilderness just needs defenders. For the past five years Wilderness Watch has worked to defend Wilderness areas in the Tonto National Forest from two agencies that should be protecting rather than degrading these wild places.
Wilderness Ethics as an Antidote to Climate Change Hubris
By Andrew Hursh
Would a modern Bob Marshall drive a Tesla to the trailhead? Motors of any propulsion certainly drove him and other early leaders of the Wilderness movement out of the woods and into public advocacy.
North Cascades Grizzly Recovery: Looking for an Alternative that is Good for Grizzlies and Good for Wilderness
By Kevin Proescholdt
Wilderness Watch recently asked the National Park Service to develop a new alternative in the planning for grizzly bear recovery in the North Cascades of Washington State. Our suggested proposal would both benefit grizzlies and protect designated Wilderness, something that none of the existing alternatives in the NPS’s current plan do.
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Why Chainsaws Matter
By George Nickas
Bill Worf, Wilderness Watch’s founder, liked to tell the story of when shortly after the Wilderness Act passed in 1964, engineers at the Forest Service Development and Technology Center expressed their interest in developing a “silent” chainsaw. Their rationale was that if the newly passed wilderness bill prohibited noisy machines, a really well muffled chainsaw would pass muster since only the operator would hear it. Bill told them not to bother—the Wilderness Act didn’t ban motorized equipment simply because it made noise...
Hovercraft Ruling Deals a Major Blow to Land Conservation in Alaska
By Dana Johnson
In a major blow to conservation efforts in Alaska, including efforts to protect over 56 million acres of Wilderness in the state, the U.S. Supreme Court held that John Sturgeon, a moose hunter, can “rev up his hovercraft in search of moose” on the Nation River—a river that flows through the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska.
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