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Wilderness Ethics as an Antidote to Climate Change Hubris
by Andrew HurshWould 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.
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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…
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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.…
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Buyer Beware
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…
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The Not So Good Public Lands Omnibus Bill
by George Nickas As they say, the devil is in the details, and when the likes of anti-public lands legislators Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT) stamp their approval on a massive 698-page public lands omnibus bill,…
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The Outlook for Wilderness in Congress
by George Nickas and Kevin ProescholdtNow that the 116th Congress has convened, the good news is no longer will the likes of Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) set the agenda and tone for wilderness and public lands legislation…
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What’s Wrong with Monitoring Inactive Volcanoes in Wilderness?
By Kevin Proescholdt Wilderness Watch recently objected to a Forest Service decision to allow permanent seismic monitoring stations in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in Washington state. If this decision doesn’t change, the Forest Service would fail to protect and…
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Why Wilderness? It’s Irreplaceable
By Franz Camenzind There is a lot being said about wilderness these days: some misrepresentations and a lot of confusion as to what wilderness is, legally and ecologically. First, wilderness designation is the best land protection law our nation has.
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Wilderness Giant Stewart “Brandy” Brandborg Moves on at 93
By Kevin Proescholdt On April 14th, wilderness legend Stewart M. “Brandy” Brandborg broke camp one last time from his home in Hamilton, Montana, and headed over the Divide. He was 93.Brandy was a giant in the wilderness movement, and…
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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…
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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…
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Gianforte 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,…
Photo: Joseph Battell Wilderness, Vermont by Dawn Serra