Some of our members reached out, confused after seeing other conservation nonprofits urging support for this bill, even as Wilderness Watch opposed it. News articles covering the EXPLORE Act ...

Almost no land in North America, even before colonization, was free from human influence. Indigenous peoples have been on ...

On the northern edge of Idaho’s Snake River Plain, one of the most developed landscapes in the state, lies an area that in contrast remains as it has been for thousands of years, a wilderness ...

The Gallatin Range deserves full wilderness protection for the 155,000 acres of the S. 393 WSA and up to 100,000 acres of additional roadless lands for a 255,000-acre wilderness.

the Wilderness Act immediately protected just over 9 million acres and established the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS), which consists of congressionally designated wilderness areas ...

Hannah] The Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, considered including Hidden Pastures Creek WSA into the National Wilderness Preservation System several decades ago, but the agency determined that ...

New Mexico's Gila Wilderness is special - not only for its natural beauty, but also because it received the world's first-ever "wilderness" designation, 100 years ago today. Conservation groups ...

The 1964 Wilderness Act celebrates its 60th anniversary today. Diamonds are given on the 60th wedding anniversary and presumably represent strength, but from a humanitarian lens, diamonds have ...

strollers and game carts on every piece of land protected by the National Wilderness Preservation System. Stopping these intrusions would take each local wilderness manager undertaking a cumbersom ...

Further, the Wilderness Act four years prior directed the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to inventory millions of acres of federal land for possible preservation as wilderness, including “every ...

a pivotal bill establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System. In the 1960s, landscapes across the country, like that of northeastern Minnesota, were identified as vulnerable — facing ...