Although the timber industry cut the first trees in a roadless area in the Pacific Northwest in 2006,the fight continues to protect the four million acres of roadless lands in Washington and Oregon's 19 national forests. Read More...
The Wilderness Society and its allies have gone to bat to protectWrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska from recreational all-terrain vehicles. Read More...
After the Bush administration temporarily halted plans to drill for natural gas along Montana’s spectacular Rocky Mountain Front,the Wilderness Society and its allies helped bring a bill to Congress to prevent new leasing on the Front’s federal lands. Read More...
This fall Congress may pass a bill creating more than 310,000 acres of significant new wilderness areas in central Idaho’s Boulder and White Cloud Mountains.Read More...
In August, the Bush administration sold oil and gas leases that will allow drilling across nearly 20,000 acres of roadless lands in three popular national forests in Colorado.The leasing in these national forests is part of an administration push to maximize drilling on public lands up and down the Rockies—even though the potential output is modestRead More...
The U.S. Forest Service has an opportunity to promote the permanent protection of additional wilderness in Pennsylvania, but the agency recommended designation of only two wilderness areas. The Wilderness Society is urging members of Congress from Pennsylvania to introduce legislation to protect five additional areas. Read More...
We have embarked on an ambitious campaign to protect the Mahoosucs region of western Maine and northeastern New Hampshire. Unfortunately, large land sales by timber companies are triggering an explosion of liquidation logging, possibly presaging a rapid increase in development across the 80 percent of the area that is not protected. Read More...
The Wilderness Society is mobilizing support for legislation that would safeguard a total of nearly 22,000 acres in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. Read More...
