Isle Royale Wolves: I Vote for Nature's Way

By Franz Camenzind
 
Isle Royale is both a National Park (1940) and a designated Wilderness Area (1976)...As a Wilderness, its clear purpose is to protect the area so as to preserve its natural conditions in a manner that generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature; where humanity's preservationist's footprint leaves at most, only a faint impression. Read more...

Restraint the Key to Keeping Wilderness Wild

Guest post by Christopher Neill

Ten years ago I got out of an MBL pickup truck and waked away from the only road for 300 miles into North America's greatest wilderness. Across spongy tundra alive with the tinkling of Smith's longspurs. Upstream along a braided river channel I shared with harlequin ducks, common mergansers and red-throated loons. Then up a jumbled talus slope with a view to the other side of glacial U-shaped valley through air so clear that the distant tops of unnamed Brooks Range mountains looked like you could toss a rock to the Dall sheep high up on their slopes.  Read more...

Giantforte Joins Stealth Attack on Wilderness in Montana

By George Nickas, Executive Director, Wilderness Watch

Montana’s designated wildernesses are the pride of our state. We might fight like hell over whether to designate this area or that one as new wilderness, but the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, Selway-Bitterroot, Absaroka-Beartooth, and our other protected wildernesses are sacred to Montanans of all stripes. That is, apparently, all stripes except Rep. Greg Gianforte, who just voted to effectively repeal the Wilderness Act and open places like “the Bob” to endless forms of habitat manipulation, predator control, road building, and...” Read more...

There was no secret deal for mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

By Kevin Proescholdt
 
Congressmen Rick Nolan and Tom Emmer, among others, have made various claims recently suggesting that the 1978 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act opened the Superior National Forest outside of the BWCAW in northern Minnesota to mining. Some variations of this story even talk about a "secret deal" or a "nod and a handshake."  Read more...

Mount Washington Wilderness Protected from Invasive Ecological Meddling

By Gary Macfarlane

National Monuments "Review" Threatens Wilderness Too

By George Nickas, Executive Director, Wilderness Watch

President Trump’s executive order demanding a review of all national monuments larger than 100,000 acres and established since 1996 portends serious consequences for the National Wilderness Preservation System. Read more...