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 is pressing the Forest Service (FS) to drop its ill-advised proposal to re-authorize commercial livestock grazing on over a quarter million acres in the Gila and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona and New Mexico, including the Gila and Blue Range Wildernesses, the Blue Range Primitive Area, and two congressionally established wilderness study areas. These rugged and wild landscapes are home to a host of threatened and endangered species, including Mexican wolves,… Read more...