Wilderness Watch is concerned about a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to significantly increase commercial use and allow commercial filming in the new Organ Mountains and Broad Canyon Wildernesses (and several Wilderness Study Areas) in New Mexico. Commercial filming is prohibited in Wilderness. Read more...

 

Wilderness Watch is concerned about a Forest Service (FS) plan to spray herbicides and possibly introduce exotic insects in the Gros Ventre, Bridger and Teton Wildernesses, and Palisades and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas in Wyoming. Read more...

 

Wilderness Watch is concerned about a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to significantly increase commercial use and allow commercial filming in the new Organ Mountains and Broad Canyon Wildernesses (and several Wilderness Study Areas) in New Mexico. Commercial filming is prohibited in Wilderness. Read more...

On June 4, Wilderness Watch and two co-plaintiff organizations filed a motion for preliminary injunction against the US Forest Service for secretly approving an unprecedented plan to allow chainsaws for clearing trails throughout the Weminuche and South San Juan Wildernesses in Colorado. A week later, we learned that the Forest Service had withdrawn its decision.

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Wilderness Watch is urging the National Park Service to preserve the wild characteristics Cumberland Island was set aside to protect. Unfortunately, the National Park Service (NPS) has historically and tragically failed to keep the promise of a wild Cumberland Island as it has allowed excessive and unlawful motor vehicle use in the Wilderness, suppressed naturally ignited fires at great detriment to the island’s ecology, prioritized saving structures rather than allow nature to reclaim the… Read more...