Speed Test
Please, no diamonds for the Wilderness Act’s 60th anniversary
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Grizzly bear killed over bait, legal action initiated
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Wilderness Watch in the news
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Keeping Wilderness Wild
Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’s 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
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Wilderness News and Views
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Torching the “Range of Light”
Moved by the radiance of sunbursts bouncing between granite peaks, John Muir once called the Sierras the “Range of Light.” Now, a century later, millions of acres of Wilderness and wild forest in the Range of Light are under…
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Make a commitment to our shared wild places today
By Marty Almquist In 1989, I became a wilderness ranger with the Forest Service and spent 25 years working in the Selway-Bitterroot, Anaconda Pintler, and River of No Return Wildernesses of Montana and Idaho. These are some of our…
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Why roadless areas matter for Wilderness preservation
We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests—the proposed repeal of the 2001 U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This could open up nearly 45 million acres of…
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Thinking in wilderness time
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
Wilderness Experienced Stories
“Wilderness Experienced” is our shared stories and musings about recent experiences in our nation’s Wildernesses.
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