Wilderness Watch is concerned over a proposal to launch commercial rockets over the Cumberland Island Wilderness off the coast of southern Georgia. Camden County’s commercial space launch site would be less than five miles from Cumberland Island National Seashore. The proposal poses a grave threat to the seashore and the Cumberland Island Wilderness, which Wilderness Watch has long-fought to protect.

Wilderness Watch is supporting the Forest Service’s (FS) draft decision to remove an unsafe log bridge over the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River in the Pemigewasset Wilderness in New Hampshire. In keeping with the spirit of the Wilderness Act, the FS stated that visitors must “meet nature on its terms.” The 46,000-acre Pemigewasset, known for its beautiful peaks, forests, and vistas, is the largest Wilderness in the state. 

Wilderness Watch recently urged the Forest Service to let the Pine Valley Wilderness "be" rather than conduct its proposed significant new manipulation project on the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah. The Forest Service is planning the "Grass Valley Watershed Restoration Project" in the Pine Valley Ranger, which includes this beautiful mountain island Wilderness. The project area includes 9,268 acres of the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness, of which 8,721 acres are proposed for "treatment"…

Wilderness Watch recently weighed in against human meddling inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). In the Hi Lo Project, the Forest Service proposes to intentionally ignite 1,314 acres of forest inside the BWCAW.

Wilderness Watch has weighed in on a Forest Service proposal to address increasing visitor use in five Wildernesses in Oregon’s Central Cascades—the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, Mount Washington, Waldo Lake, and Diamond Peak—to better protect conditions within the Wildernesses. 

Wilderness Watch and other groups have sent the Chief of the Forest Service a letter urging him to permanently close four backcountry airstrips located in the Big Creek drainage within the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho. The Simonds, Vines Ranch, Dewey Moore, ad Mile Hi airstrips were not in regular use at the time of wilderness designation through the Central Idaho Wilderness Act in 1980, and they should have been closed permanently decades ago. 

Should we manipulate and MANage wildlife and ecosystems in Wilderness for the benefit of researchers and tourists, or should we let nature decide? That’s the question facing the National Park Service at Isle Royale Wilderness in Michigan.

Unfortunately, the National Park Service has decided to move ahead with its plan for heavy-handed manipulation of the Isle Royale Wilderness in Michigan. Its Environmental Impact Statement released in February 2018 plans for the capture of 20 to 30 wild wolves…