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Wilderness Watch is the nation's leading organization solely dedicated to defending America's 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’s 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
Learn more about America's National Wild and Scenic River System, which protects 13,467 miles of 228 rivers in 41 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. >>> wildernesswatch.org/wild-and-sce...
Howls up for @SenBooker who recently blocked the attempt of an anti-wolf senator to remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire country. Thank you Senator Cory Booker for standing up for wolves and the wild!
Two deceptively-named anti-Wilderness logging bills—the “Save Our Sequoias Act” and the “Fix Our Forests Act"—have been attached to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, or Senate Bill 4784. Full details and call script here >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no_fofa_sosa...
"The outstanding wilderness and wildlife values of Izembek must be protected from the planned road construction until the merits of our lawsuit can be heard in court,” said Kevin Proescholdt, conservation director for Wilderness Watch. Details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Sadly, sometimes we also "wonder if we have enough reverence for life to conceded to wilderness the right to live on."
States have repeatedly sought to delist grizzly bears and resume trophy hunting. Now the Trump administration is weakening federal protections and moving one step closer to putting grizzly bears under state control. Take action by August 17 >>> bearsbelong.com/4drule
A lot of folks believe that once Congress designates a Wilderness that all threats suddenly disappear. Sadly that's not the case. Learn more about current threats to Wilderness and its wildlife. >>> wildernesswatch.org/threats/
Please speak up for grizzly bears by urging your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act (H.R. 281 / S. 316). >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz... 📸 Sam Parks
The overarching legal mandate of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the Wilderness character of each area in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/stewardship-...
Wilderness has star power! 📸 Oregon Badlands Wilderness by Bob Wick
For over 35 years, Wilderness Watch has been the leading national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship the National Wilderness Preservation System. Learn more about current Wilderness issues we’re working on. >>> wildernesswatch.org/wild-issues/
Wilderness Watch heads to D.C. next week. You can help us defend Wilderness by calling your members of Congress to tell them about the value of Wilderness so when Wilderness Watch shows up on Capitol Hill next week, they take note. Call script >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/take-actio...
Lobos are an integral part of Wilderness and the ecology of the American Southwest. The Gila, Blue Range, Aldo Leopold, Bear Wallow, Escudilla, Mount Baldy, Apache Kid, and Withington Wildernesses provide core habitat for this rare subspecies of wolves. wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr4255/index...
The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103) would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias in designated Wilderness. Please call your two senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose the so-called "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103).
Speak up now to defend public lands and Wilderness! Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and demand they oppose inclusion of both the so-called "Save our Sequoias Act (S. 4103) and so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" (S. 1462) in the Farm Bill.
Read our fact sheet about the Trump administration's push for chainsaws in Wilderness. >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and demand they oppose inclusion of both the so-called "Save our Sequoias Act (S. 4103) and so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" (S. 1462) in the Farm Bill! Speak up now to defend public lands and Wilderness!
Wilderness Watch's Kevin Proescholdt joins the National Parks Traveler podcast to discuss current threats to Wilderness. Listen in and learn what you can do to defend Wilderness. >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/publish/post...
Possible Roadless Rule repeal got you down? Wilderness is the answer!!! Tap below to write your members of Congress and urge them to co-sponsor and pass the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/nrepa-2025/i...
"These landscapes of water and reflection are an obsession." – Claude Monet 📸 Leon Werdinger
REMINDER: Join Wilderness Watch and our partners at the Great Old Broads for Wilderness at 5pm MDT on Thursday, June 11 for a webinar about “Chainsaws and the Wilderness Act.” Tap below for details, including how to register for this free webinar. >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/chainsaw-wil...
Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’s 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
In light of the fact that the U.S. Forest Service authorized commercial outfitters to use chainsaws in the River of No Return Wilderness with no public notice or public comment process, join this webinar on Thursday, June 11 at 5pm MDT. Register here: www.greatoldbroads.org/events/onlin...
It is THIS time of the year across the National Wilderness Preservation System!
“To those who have known the wilderness, there can be no other place like it.” — Sigurd F. Olson
The lawsuit asks the court to establish that the Wilderness Act prohibits “predator control” for commercial grazing operations in Wilderness, vacate the federal policies authorizing these activities, and permanently prohibit such practices going forward. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-lawsui...
“Killing native species to appease the livestock industry violates the Wilderness Act,” said Dan Brister of Wilderness Watch. “In Wilderness, Congress mandated that the Forest Service protect nature—not industry profits.” >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-lawsui...