We won our lawsuit against the Trump administration's illegal attempt to build a road through the heart of the fabled Izembek Wilderness and Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska! On March, 29, 2019, a federal judge ruled against former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's closed-door agreement for a land exchange of federal public lands to allow the State of Alaska to punch a road through this spectacular Wilderness.

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Wilderness Watch challenges emerging threats to America's National Wilderness Preservation System that we couldn't have even imagined when we were founded in 1989. BLM's recent illegal helicopter retrieval of a high-altitude aerial wireless network balloon that landed in the Black Rock Desert Wilderness in Nevada is one such example. Read more...

Wilderness Watch is strongly opposing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, our last great wilderness. An amendment to the 2017 tax bill opened the Coastal Plain of the Refuge to oil drilling and associated development, with the requirement that the BLM first prepare an EIS.

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The popular Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington is being targeted by Chelan County for dam construction and water diversion projects for development, irrigation, and a fish hatchery. Dam construction and maintenance would harm the area’s wilderness character, and these proposed projects would set a bad precedent for our entire National Wilderness Preservation System. 

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Wilderness Watch and Western Watersheds Project have joined forces in challenging grazing permit renewal decisions that allow a significant increase in livestock grazing, along with new fencing, troughs, and water pipelines, in the Owyhee Canyonlands and Little Jacks Creek Wilderness in Idaho. The decisions also authorize varying levels of motorized access within the Wilderness. Read more...