Have you checked out our summer newsletter, which is 50 percent bigger than normal?!?! Tap below to see all the great work we're doing to preserve America's National Wilderness Preservation System during these unprecedented times. >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/upl…

Urge your rep and senators to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act, which would remove ESA protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and open the door for trophy hunting. ✍️ Write Congress: wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizzly… ☎️ Call Congress: 202-224-3121

The “Eastern Wilderness Act” turns 50 this year! The Act emerged as law despite U.S. Forest Service attempts to severely limit Wilderness on our national forests and effectively end wilderness designation in the East. wildernesswatch.org/the-eastern-wi…

Here's your Monday Motivation to Keep Wilderness Wild! 📸 Bob Wick/BLM

Following a six-year battle, the mining threat to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness in southern Georgia posed by Twin Pines Minerals has officially ended! Thanks to our supporters who submitted 65,000 public comments over the years! wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/okefenokee-min…

Wilderness Watch is ready for the fight ahead, but we’ll need your support. Please make a donation today to ensure that America’s National Wilderness Preservation System will endure! wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/summer-2025-ap…

"Beauty—and all the values that derive from beauty—are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar." —> Rachel Carson

Last week, a federal district court in Missoula ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it determined that gray wolves in the western U.S. do not warrant federal protections. >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/court-wester…

Holy cow! Did you know these facts? Here's the percentage of ALL federally-protected Wilderness acres in various western states that are open to livestock grazing: 🐂 Nevada: 70% 🐂 Utah: 51% 🐂 New Mexico: 45% 🐂 Arizona: 41%. 🐂 Colorado: 27% More: wildernesswatch.org/grazing-policy…

Water is life and clean water is precious! Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act. >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in-b…

The U.S. Forest Service is planning to reconstruct, and in places construct, a road in the Lusk Creek Wilderness in Illinois! And the agency decided to approve the road-building plan in January without any environmental review! >>> wildernesswatch.org/lusk-creek-wil…

“The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wilderness system, not to establish any particular use.” — Howard Zahniser, Wilderness Act author

For the third year running, trespass cattle have been found deep within the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness. Despite clear evidence and repeated reports, the National Park Service has yet to act. ACT NOW to protect this Wilderness area! secure.everyaction.com/Wjb9_FoybkuFpQ…

Please speak up for grizzly bears and help stop extinction! Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025. —> bearsbelong.com/grizzlybearact

Wilderness Watch is urging the Forest Service to strengthen protections for the 219-mile Flathead Wild and Scenic River System as the agency considers new regulations and increased recreation monitoring. wildernesswatch.org/habitat-protec…

The situation in the Enchantments within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness was already terrible before the Trump administration's staffing cuts. The Forest Service must close the Enchantments or adopt a strict, limited-entry permit system for all visitors. seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/…

Happy Waterfall Wednesday! America's National Wilderness Preservation System literally forms the headwaters of our nation. Our mission is to Keep Wilderness Wild!

The Trump administration is trying to trash the Roadless Rule to bring more logging, road building, and development to wild federal public lands. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act offers a science-based Wilderness solution! TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/nrepa-2025/ind…