Striking the right balance between renewable energy development and wilderness protection raises many questions.

Clean energy sources like wind and solar can help us reduce climate change, but can harm wildlife and wildlands if not carefully located.

Our conservation lands face many challenges: understaffing, underfunding and shifting political priorities. The system’s lands and waters are also threatened by development, vandalism and neglect.

Millions of acres of public lands can “grow up” to be wilderness, monuments or other forms of protected lands. We have the opportunity to protect and enjoy them now.

Relentless attacks on our public lands led to the establishment of The Wilderness Society’s BLM Action Center in 2003.