This Thanksgiving season, all of us at The Wilderness Society want to thank our members for having enabled us to help the National Wilderness Preservation System grow to nearly 107 million acres.Read More...
The federal government is issuing oil and gas leases at a reckless pace, jeopardizing vast stretches of the mountains, deserts, streams, and forests owned by the American people.At particular risk are landscapes in Alaska and five Rocky Mountain States. Read More...
The Bush administration, the oil industry,and the industry’s backers in Congress took several more runs this year at authorizing drilling across the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But as the days of the 109th Congress wind down, it appears that this natural treasure and its wildlife have survived for now.Read More...
Sometimes eastern wilderness seems like a well-kept secret. But The Wilderness Society isdeeply engaged in campaigns designed to protect wilderness in a half dozen eastern states, almost entirely on national forest land.Read More...
Nearly 50 million acres of undeveloped national forest lands won a reprieve in September when a federal court reinstated the 2001 Roadless Rule, which has been under intense attack by the Bush administration for almost six years.Read More...
The Wilderness Society and other partners have organized volunteer projects to help maintain parts of theNational Landscape Conservation System—26 million acres of historic and wild public lands in the West.Read More...
The U.S. Forest Service, local governments and businesses, The Wilderness Society, and others have teamed up with the Skokomish Tribe to start curing the problems that have damaged the Skokomish watershed, located on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.Read More...
Read about the issues that The Wilderness Society's regional offices are working on, including efforts to safeguard more than 300 miles of wild rivers in Idaho and the creation of new wilderness in northern California. Read More...
