In that spirit, one of our favorite traditions in The Wilderness Society’s BLM Action Center is compiling a year-end list of the greatest achievements in conservation for our public lands.
Former industrial sites provide some of the best opportunities for energy development and can help revitalize local economies while reducing pressure to develop renewable energy on public lands, including some of America’s wild places.
It teems with migratory birds, caribou, polar bears, wolves and other wildlife, but is cursed with what may be the ugliest and most ill-fitting name of any wild landscape: the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
After decades of calls to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we finally have an opportunity to help gain permanent wilderness protection for the refuge. For the first time ever, the U.S.
What they aren't known for is the tremendous economic boost that they give to the American economy each and every year -- more than $1 trillion dollars (yes, with a T).
The Wilderness Society continues to sound the warning that Shell lacks the ability to adequately respond to an offshore oil spill in remote, stormy seas that are covered in ice much of the year.
On August 2, 2011, the North Carolina Court of Appeals turned down an appeal from a couple of environmental organizations, and ruled that wood derived from whole trees in primary h
