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Tranquility Restored to Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine

February 3, 2011 By Jared White

For decades Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine area just south of Glacier  National Park was the home of rampant off-roading that gradually carved up the forest’s phenomenal wild lands.  Now with the help of local citizens who live along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front and our partners at Earthjustice, we’ve defeated an attempt to overturn a Forest Service plan to protect the Badger-Two Medicine from such damage. Region:  Northern Rockies Read more

Motors in wilderness lands? Time to correct a policy loophole

April 14, 2010 By Vera Smith

A jeep stuck in a Tahoe National Forest meadow. Photo by Laura Clarke, Courtesy USFS.

Our National Forests are as diverse in nature as they are in geography. Some offer the most pristine settings in the nation, while others sit close to urban centers, and everything in between. There are 36 million acres of designated Wilderness lands in our national forests — including places as iconic as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho and the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness in Colorado. These places are wild and remote, and will always be that way because they are formally designated as Wilderness by Congress. Read more

Be Proud! See what you achieved for the Wild in 2009

December 9, 2009 By Laura Bailey

Bristlecone pine protected by the Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act. Photo by John Dittli.

In 2009 you helped us begin to tear down the destructive environmental legacy of the Bush administration. Our members and supporters sent more than 1 million letters to decision makers, while our staff worked closely with the incoming administration and Congress. Read more