Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge in Montana

Credit: Matthew Reeves, Courtesy NASA

Last year we asked you to help protect Montana’s premier National Wildlife Refuge, and many of you did just that — calling on the Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize its 15-year Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) and expand proposed wilderness. In the end, more than 20,000 public comments flooded into the Montana’s Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMR), many urging managers to conserve more of the nation’s best wildlife habitat, hunting and backcountry prairie hiking and camping opportunities. Region:  Northern Rockies Read more

Times aren’t looking too optimistic for the gray wolves that inhabit Alaska’s rugged Unimak island on the eastern tip of the Aleutians. Region:  Alaska Read more

This weekend, hundreds of young people from across the United States will travel to New York to attend Outdoor Nation – a national youth conservation summit and festival in Central Park.  The mission is to “unite young people from across the country with a common mission: to champion the outdoors and start a youth-driven movement.” Read more