Press Releases

Below are some recent press releases about issues we’re working on. For more information about the issues we are working on, click here.

• Wilderness Watch and allies file complaint against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for threatened wolverine (1/14/2026)
• Gwich’in Steering Committee, Wilderness Watch, and allied groups take latest Arctic Refuge leasing program to court (1/13/2026)
• Trump administration proposes fundamentally weakening Endangered Species Act with harmful new rules (11/19/2025)
• Groups sue Interior for illegal land swap that threatens Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (11/12/2025)
• Federal judge overturns Forest Service plan to poison Buffalo Creek in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (10/24/2025)
• New Trump proposals benefit narrow commercial beef interests at the expense of western public lands (10/24/2025)
• Wilderness Watch applauds introduction of Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (10/23/2025)
• Senator Lee’s Border Bill guts the Wilderness Act, potentially impacting all Wilderness areas in the U.S. (10/22/2025)
• Groups sue Forest Service over illegal road plan in Lusk Creek Wilderness (10/1/2025)
• Court: Western wolves wrongly denied Endangered Species Act protections (8/5/2025)
• Advisory: Endangered Species Act protections for Western wolves to be considered in federal court in Missoula on June 18 (6/12/2025)
• Groups appeal court decision allowing AIDEA to keep Arctic Refuge leases (5/19/2025)
• Senate introduces bill to ramp up destruction of public lands and bypass public input (4/11/2025)
• A New Vision for Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains bolsters support for a unified, interconnected grizzly bear population (2/20/2025)
• Judge Upholds Ruling Limiting Wolf Trapping, Snaring in Idaho (2/5/2025)
• Advocates launch legal action to prevent grizzly bear deaths at bait stations (7/15/2024)
• Grizzly bear death at bait station precisely what conservation groups’ lawsuit hoped to prevent (6/20/2024)
• Conservation groups challenge federal decision to deny western wolves protections (4/8/2024)
• Court ruling halts wolf trapping and snaring in Idaho grizzly bear habitat (3/20/2024)
• Conservation groups initiate legal action against Feds for failing to protect wolves (2/7/2024)
• Feds find western wolves unworthy of Endangered Species Act protection; conservation groups prepare for legal action (2/2/2024)
• Media Advisory: Federal court in Boise will hold hearing January 4, 2024 on Idaho wolf trapping (1/4/2024)
• Wilderness Watch sues U.S. Forest Service to protect Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness from fish poisoning and helicopters (11/8/2023)
• Conservation groups sue National Park Service to protect Wilderness in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (9/25/2023)
• Court injunction stops U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s unlawful decision to construct and operate a permanent water-diversion pipeline and permanently alter natural conditions within the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness in southwestern Montana (8/2/2023)
• Conservation groups sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Red Rock Lakes Wilderness (6/26/2023)
• Lawsuit challenges unlawful expansion of aircraft landing areas in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (6/20/2023)

Photo: Jerry Peak Wilderness, Idaho by Leon Werdinger