Wilderness Watch is supporting a National Park Service (NPS) decision to remove the dilapidated Enchanted Valley Chalet in the Olympic Wilderness in Washington. The structure stands in the path of the East Fork Quinault River, and its eventual demise threatens to flood the wild river with brick, metal, wood, and other debris. The Park Service should allow natural conditions to be restored to the Wilderness.

On August 26, 2020, Wilderness Watch, together with a coalition of conservation organizations, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from reinstating cruel “hunting” practices on 19 million acres of America’s National Preserves in Alaska, which includes millions of acres of Wilderness. National Preserves in Alaska are administered by the National Park Service and are essentially national parks, except that they allow hunting. We are represented by Trustees for Alaska.

On August 24, 2020, the Gwitch’in Nation, together with a coalition of conservation organizations including Wilderness Watch, filed a lawsuit to stop the Administration’s decision to lease the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas companies, and to turn America’s wildest landscape into another industrial wasteland. We are represented by Trustees for Alaska.

Wilderness Watch is opposing Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service (NPS), and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) rulemaking to open up our federal public lands to electric bikes, or e-bikes. This means that all trails open to bikes will now be open to motorized bikes, and although individual managers can close individual trails to e-bike use, most will be loathe to do so. These rulemaking efforts are being made to implement Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt’s Secretarial Order…

The Okefenokee Wilderness, part of one of the world’s largest still intact blackwater swamp ecosystems and important habitat for native wildlife such as black bears, American alligators, and red-cockaded woodpeckers, is once again threatened by a titanium and zirconium mine at the doorstep of its namesake national wildlife refuge (NWR). The 354,000-acre Okefenokee Wilderness in southern Georgia makes up almost 90 percent of the Okefenokee NWR and is one of the largest Wilderness areas in the…