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...

Wilderness Watch is fighting the Trump Administration’s proposal to bring cruel “hunting” practices back to our National Preserves in Alaska. Former Secretary of the Interior Zinke proposed to roll back a 2015 National Park Service rule banning some unethical practices on 19 million acres of National Preserves in Alaska, which includes millions of acres of Wilderness.

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On August 27, Wilderness Watch submitted a formal Objection to the Forest Service on its draft Record of Decision Mountain Goat Management Plan/EIS for Olympic National Park and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The agency, cooperating with the National Park Service, plans to move a few hundred goats to Wildernesses in the Cascades, and will eventually kill about another 300 that can’t be caught.  Read more...