Trails are among the best ways to experience the outdoors, but they need maintenance to ensure they remain in good condition and are available for people to use.

Deerfield Wind is the first wind project planned in a national forest. If successful, 14 wind turbines would be built in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest — an area previously proposed for wilderness protection.

Guiding renewable energy to the most appropriate places will avoid significant impacts to wildlands and the wildlife that call our public lands home.

The Wilderness Society works to ensure that renewable energy development on public lands occurs in the right places and in the right ways.

How the Bureau of Land Management manages our National Conservation Lands over the coming years will be just as important as was designating these places for protection in the first place.