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GIVE NOWMatt Payne
Matt Payne
The Wilderness Society in the news
Richard Klotz
TWS Opposes S. 5653 over six threats to public lands
Mason Cummings, TWS
The Forest Service didn’t ask them to show up. They did anyway.
Brendan Ladd
Meet the winners of our 2026 Photo Contest
New map shows extent of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument cuts
Colorado fought for decades to protect the Roan Plateau; we have to defend against drilling again
Randy Langstraat
Map: Nearly 200 million acres could be affected by Interior’s wilderness “review”
Bob Wick, BLM
In pictures: What’s at stake in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Tarpley, BLM
Map: 5 million recommended wilderness acres at risk in expected USDA memo
Mason Cummings, TWS
Together we can protect public lands, now and forever.
Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.
Nearly 112 million acres of wilderness protected
Miles Morgan
From coast to coast, we protect the public lands that hold our freedom, our memories and our future.
Where we workWild Places
Mason Cummings, TWS
There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness.
Bob Marshall Founder of The Wilderness Society
Our HistoryMason Cummings/TWS
