Wilderness Watch is supporting a number of changes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing in and around the Wichita Mountains Wilderness that would help restore more natural conditions. FWS’s good proposals would specifically improve and protect the Charons Garden Wilderness unit at the Wichita Mountains Wilderness.

In response to a surge in use and associated impacts, the U.S. Forest Service (FS) is proposing a fee-based permit system for camping in a number of places in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness in Colorado. Wilderness Watch supports quotas to reduce impacts and protect wildlife and solitude for visitors, so we feel the FS is justified in proposing quotas in this case. However, turning the quota system into a plan to charge $12 per day just to visit Wilderness is both inappropriate and…