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. 

Wilderness Watch is opposing a Forest Service (FS) proposal to allow the US Geological Service to build a permanent seismic monitoring station in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in Washington, and to utilize up to 20 helicopter trips into the Wilderness over four years. Similar to other proposals for structures in Wilderness, the FS has once again failed to justify how these stations are necessary to protect the Wilderness and has failed to look at alternatives, including sites outside the…

 Wilderness Watch has filed a formal Objection with Los Padres ForestWatch to stop the Forest Service from building permanent, artificial firelines inside the Ventana Wilderness and allow the Wilderness to restore its wilderness character. The 237,000-acre Ventana Wilderness straddles the Santa Lucia Mountains south of the Monterey Peninsula in the Big Sur country of southern California.

The Trump administration’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, has proposed rolling back a 2015 National Park Service rule banning some cruel and unethical hunting practices on 19 million acres of National Preserves in Alaska, which includes millions of acres of Wilderness. The rule codifed temporary restrictions in place, and the regulations apply to sport hunters only; subsistence hunters are not affected.  Read more...