This summer we put out a call for photography that captured the beauty of the Colorado landscapes we work to protect.

Congratulations to the three winners of The Wilderness Society's Hidden Gems Photo Contest! The winning photographs, which represent special wildlands, flora, and fauna in Colorado that need our protection, are below!

We will be using submitted photographs in campaign material to help promote Wilderness protection across the State of Colorado.

“What I want to speak for is not so much the wilderness uses, valuable as those are, but the wilderness idea, which is a resource in itself…” With those words, Wallace Stegner launched his impassioned defense of wilderness in his Wilderness Letter, written in 1960. This was four years before the Wilderness Act and creation of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which forever empowered Americans with the legislative means to protect our most pristine public lands.