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Wilderness in the Eternity of the Future
By Ed Zahniser*Editor’s note: The following is reprinted from a speech Ed Zahniser gave this past May in Schenectady, NY. Ed Zahniser speaks at the Kelly Adirondack Center of Union College in Schenectady, NY, May 8, 2014. The Center…
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Happy 50th Anniversary, Wilderness Act!
“The Wilderness Bill preserves for our posterity, for all time to come, 9 million acres of this vast continent in their original and unchanging beauty and wonder.” — President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon signing the Wilderness Act into law on…
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Wilderness More Important than Ever
by Kevin Proescholdt and Howie Wolke Christopher Solomon got it wrong in so many ways in his July 6 New York Times editorial, “Rethinking the Wild: The Wilderness Act Is Facing A Midlife Crisis”. The history of the wilderness…
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The evolution of Monte Dolack’s Commemorative Wilderness Poster
“The Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness,” by internationally-acclaimed artist Monte Dolack, commemorates the Wilderness Act’s 50th anniversary and celebrates our 110 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System, which spans ancient forests, vast arctic reaches, sweeping deserts, soaring mountains, remote coastal islands, and…
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Wilderness Advocate Polly Dyer Recognized with Honorary Doctorate
By Susan Morgan and John Miles On March 22, 2014 Polly Dyer received her honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA to recognize and celebrate her lifetime of conservation achievements. Four years ago, after…
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Cheering 50th Anniversary of Wilderness Act
By Michael Frome Early in my career, when I was writing travel articles for various magazines and newspapers, I found myself reading the travel section of The New York Times every Sunday. The attraction for me was not in the stories…
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Of Wolves and Wilderness
By George Nickas “One of the most insidious invasions of wilderness is via predator control.” – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Right before the holidays last December, an anonymous caller alerted Wilderness Watch that the Forest Service (FS) had…
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Wolves and Isle Royale: Manipulated Zoo or Wild Wilderness?
by Kevin Proescholdt Pressure has been mounting on the National Park Service to “save” the wolves on Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park and Wilderness. Wolf numbers on the Lake Superior island have dropped, proponents of manipulation proclaim, and the…
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A Brief History of Quid Pro Quo Wilderness
Janine Blaeloch,Board member, Wilderness WatchDirector, Western Lands Project Beginning in the late 1990s, a new kind of land deal materialized in Congress that would present a huge challenge to grassroots public land activists and wilderness advocates and create a…
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Seeing What All the Dam Fuss Is About
By Jerome Walker and Marcia Williams After reading “A Dam Dilemma” in the Missoula Independent in mid-July, we decided to hike up to the Fred Burr Dam in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Montana to see what all the fuss was about.…
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Wilderness: What and Why
By Howie Wolke A few years ago, I led a group through the wilds of northern Alaska’s Brooks Range during the early autumn caribou migration. I think that if I had fourteen lifetimes I’d never again experience anything quite…
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State Agency Game Farming Is Not Compatible with Wilderness or Ecosystem Integrity
By George Wuerthner With the delisting of wolves from protection under the Endangered Species Act, their management has been turned back to the individual states where wolves occur. Most of these state agencies are adopting policies that treat wolves…
Photo: Joseph Battell Wilderness, Vermont by Dawn Serra