Bobcat by Sam Parks
March 01, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service rule could help end carnivore killing on wildlife refuges

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a new rule on “biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health” for America’s national wildlife refuge system. The rule could have a far-reaching impact on the refuge system, which includes nearly 21 million acres of Wilderness.

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Red Rock Lakes Wilderness by Erin Clark/USFWS
February 29, 2024

Don't blame beavers for human folly

Wilderness Watch is opposing a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plan to manipulate habitat in the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Montana, 32,350 acres of which is the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness. The USFWS released an Environmental Assessment (EA) and Minimum Requirements Analysis Framework for notching beaver dams in Red Rock Creek, some of which runs through the Wilderness.

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Pasayten Wilderness by Aaron via Flickr
February 23, 2024

Wildernesses in Washington targeted for military jet training

The U.S. Navy has proposed the creation of new military airspaces for jet training exercises in Washington State. Unfortunately, the airspaces would overlap with two Wildernesses—the Pasayten and Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wildernesses—and threaten to destroy the solitude and silence found there.

 

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Okefenokee
February 22, 2024

Massive strip mine threatens one of the East's largest Wildernesses

The Okefenokee Wilderness, part of one of the world’s largest still intact blackwater swamp ecosystems and important habitat for native wildlife such as black bears, American alligators, and red-cockaded woodpeckers, is once again threatened by a titanium and zirconium mine at the doorstep of its namesake national wildlife refuge (NWR). The 354,000-acre Okefenokee Wilderness in southern Georgia makes up almost 90 percent of the Okefenokee NWR and is one of the largest Wilderness areas in the…

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Wolf by Sam Parks
February 02, 2024

Legal action initiated to protect wolves

On February 2, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would not re-list gray wolves in the northern Rockies under the Endangered Species Act, finding them “not warranted” for federal protection.

 

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Wind River Range, Wyoming by Tom Andrews, www.wildlandart.com
January 30, 2024

The "Protecting America's Rock Climbing Act" will weaken the Wilderness Act

Wilderness and wildlife are under relentless pressures at this moment in history, including from exploding demand for outdoor recreation. Unfortunately, right now some members of Congress are pushing a bill to allow permanent “fixed anchor” rock climbing in America’s National Wilderness Preservation System. The “Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act” (H.R. 1380) might seem innocuous, but it has big consequences. It will weaken the landmark 1964 Wilderness Act and increase recreation pressures…

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Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana by Troy Smith via Flickr
January 19, 2024

Protect the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex from outfitter impacts

Wilderness Watch is concerned with a Forest Service proposal to renew existing outfitter permits in the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Great Bear Wildernesses in Northwestern Montana—which collectively comprise the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex—without disclosing which permits, their locations, or any associated information. This makes it impossible to provide meaningful public input. 

 

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Coyote by Sam Parks
January 02, 2024

Defending Wilderness and wildlife in Nevada

Wilderness Watch started the new year by filing an amicus brief at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on January 2, 2024 to rein in Wildlife Services’ wanton killing of native wildlife in Nevada, including the potential for killing wildlife in Wilderness.

 

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Ambler
December 28, 2023

Ambler Road Threatens Gates of the Arctic Wilderness

In Fall 2023, the Biden administration released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed 211-mile Ambler Road through Alaska’s Brooks Range and some of the wildest country on the continent. The road would facilitate huge mining operations that would benefit a private Canadian company at the expense of Wilderness and wildlife.

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WW sues to protect Absaroka-Beartooth from fish poisoning

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge still threatened

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842,448 Wilderness acres threatened with burning and cutting

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Let Yellowstone Buffalo Roam

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WW sues NPS to protect Wilderness in Sequoia and Kings Canyon

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Red Rock Lakes Wilderness pipeline project withdrawn

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Protect Isle Royale’s solitude and wild character

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Keep cattle out of the Arrastra Mountain Wilderness

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We’re suing over Idaho's wolf-killing laws

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Air Force targets Wildernesses in Vermont

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Victory for Owyhee Canyonlands!

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Protect Wilderness in Utah's Canyon Country

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Predator killing rule goes back to the drawing board

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Helicopters and landscaping don't belong in Sequoia NP Wilderness

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North Cascades NP plan degrades Wilderness

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Prioritize quiet in the Boundary Waters

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Lawsuit challenges unlawful expansion of airstrips in River of No Return

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What is BLM hiding?


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Good News for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

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WW Sues to Stop Motorboat Abuse in Boundary Waters

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Yes to grizzlies and Wilderness in the North Cascades

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Protect Wilderness at Isle Royale National Park

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Keep the Promise of a Wild Cumberland Island

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Let natural fires shape the Powderhorn

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What it means to be "Wilderness" at Cube Cove

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Good News for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

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Double the harm to Sids Mountain

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Water won’t run uphill


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You made a difference for Wilderness in CA

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Good news for brown bears in the Kenai Refuge

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Take down the fence and save Tule elk at Point Reyes

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Izembek still threatened


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Keep Glacier Bay Wilderness Wild

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Bighorns targeted for helicopter-assisted capture/collar plan

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Low-flying jets threaten 28 Wildernesses in the Southwest

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Wildernesses spared from burn plan

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Central Yukon Management Plan needs much improvement

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Park Service must do better for Wilderness in Olympic

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Drop Trump-era Forest Service grazing plan

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Treat the Wenaha-Tucannon like the Wilderness it is

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WW objects to Mission Mountains manipulation project

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Supersonic jet flights threaten Owyhee Wildernesses

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Don't charge fees to visit Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness

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Good Changes Proposed for Wichita Mountains Wilderness

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Scapegoat Wilderness poisoning stopped

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Don’t mar the Mt. Rainier Wilderness

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Montana/Idaho put on notice over extreme new hunting laws

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Grazing doesn't belong in Table Mountain and Alta Toquima

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Re-list wolves as “endangered” throughout the West

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Scrap a grazing plan for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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River of No Return Wilderness threatened by giant strip mine

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Don't Trammel the Palisades Wilderness Study Area

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Litigation on National Park Service e-bike rule will proceed

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Protect Joshua Tree Wilderness in climbing plan

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Protect Wilderness in Whitebark Pine Listing

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Helicopters and landscaping don't belong in Sequoia NP Wilderness

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Victory: Air Force drops Gila overflights plan!

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Wilderness be Undammed


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Destructive Grazing Threatens Gila and Blue Range Wildernesses

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Herbicides and Burning Six Wildernesses in Arizona

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WW Sues to End the Killing of Grizzly Bears at Bait Stations

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WW Objects to Wilderness Helicopter Invasion in Arizona

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Helicopter Net-Gun Capture Stopped in Wasatch Wildernesses

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Eightmile dam project threatens Alpine Lakes Wilderness

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Keep Grazing Allotments Closed in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

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E-Bike rules threaten public lands, wildlife, and Wilderness

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National Environmental Policy Act on the line

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Donate to Wilderness Watch!

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Protect trailless Wilderness in NH and ME

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BLM's "Loony" Action


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New Boundary Waters mining threat emerges

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Seismic Exploration Threatens Arctic Refuge

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WW appeals livestock grazing permit renewals in Colorado

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Leave the Cascades and Olympic Wildernesses Be

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FWS needs to protect and recover the lobo

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No Permanent Firebreaks in the Ventana Wilderness

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Wilderness Community Unites to Keep Bike Ban in Wilderness

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Proposed BLM grazing regs threaten Wilderness across the West

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Wilderness and Mining Don't Mix

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Restore Wilderness in Olympic National Park

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Sulfide Mines Threaten Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

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BLM Seeking to Commercialize Wildernesses in New Mexico

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WW Challenges Increased Grazing in Little Jacks Creek Wilderness

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Commercial Spaceport Threatens Cumberland Island Wilderness

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Remove Pemigewasset Wilderness Bridge

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Wilderness Watch Opposes Human Meddling in Boundary Waters

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Let the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness Be

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Visitor Permit System Coming to Central Cascades Wildernesses

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Commercial Use Threatens Pasayten and Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wildernesses

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Victory for River of No Return Wilderness and its Wildlife

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BLM Drops Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Juniper Project

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Kootznoowoo Wilderness Spared an Airport

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WW Urges a Wilder Yosemite and Mt. Rainer Wilderness

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Park Service Should Protect Nation’s Largest Wilderness

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Good news for the Hoover Wilderness

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Victory for six Owyhee Wildernesses in Idaho!

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It’s Time to Remove Domestic Sheep in the High Uintas Wilderness

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Congress Allows Unethical Killing in Wildlife Refuges in Alaska

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Military Drops Plans to Land Helicopters in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness

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Another Building Boom in the Olympics

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Forest Service Proposes Logging and Burning Wildernesses in Arizona

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Preserve quiet in National Parks and Wilderness

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Wilderness Watch Votes for Nature's Way

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