Sure, the ocean is “uninhabited” and “unpopulated” in a certain sense, because humans don’t live in the ocean. If humans ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — A Senate joint resolution urging Congress to release over a million acres of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My organization has no quarrel with Wal-Mart, nor does the coalition of preservation and conservation groups opposing a proposed supercenter on the Wilderness Battlefield. We have not entered the ...