This year, for a third consecutive time, President Obama made a proclamation decreeing September as National Wilderness Month.

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.

Why do you love your wilderness?

Members of the my wilderness community tell us — in six words.

Submit your photo!

Take your friends and family out for a wilderness adventure and then share it with the my wilderness community.

It’s not often that in rural Montana we can find a Forest Service ranger, a heavy equipment operator, conservation advocates, and others all heralding a government program. But that’s exactly what happened recently in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.