Wilderness Watch is the nation's leading organization solely dedicated to defending America's 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
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The Wilderness areas of the American Southwest would be considerably less wild without Mexican gray wolves, or lobos.
So please contact your representative and urge them to oppose H.R. 4255.
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REMINDER: Join Wilderness Watch and our partners at the Great Old Broads for Wilderness at 5pm MDT on Thursday, June 11 for a webinar about “Chainsaws and the Wilderness Act.”
Tap below for details, including how to register for this free webinar.
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Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’s 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System and keeping it wild. Our work is guided by the visionary 1964 Wilderness Act.
"These landscapes of water and reflection are an obsession." – Claude Monet
📸 Leon Werdinger
“Killing native species to appease the livestock industry violates the Wilderness Act,” said Dan Brister of Wilderness Watch. “In Wilderness, Congress mandated that the Forest Service protect nature—not industry profits.”
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"After Hurricane Helene....Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards (SAWS) raised its hand and asked for the chance to try.
In freezing winter conditions, their crew used crosscut saws to clear roughly 700 trees in under six weeks—no chainsaw needed."
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Our new lawsuit with our allies is challenging the U.S. government’s policy of allowing federal agents to kill wildlife—including wolves, bears, cougars, and coyotes using poisons, traps, and aerial gunning—inside designated Wilderness.
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"Across the nation, the federal agencies try to manipulate Wilderness to fit their desires, not Nature’s choices."
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Urge your members of Congress to oppose the so-called "Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act," which would release 100,000 acres of Wilderness Study Areas for potential development.
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Senate Natural Resources Committee will vote 6/9 on Sen Mike Lee's amendment to S. 140, which would nullify the Roadless Rule, opening up public lands to even more roads, logging, and development.
Call 202-224-3121 and urge your senators to oppose!
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Urge Congress to oppose the Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act.
We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests—the proposed repeal of the 2001 U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Th...
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See how we’re defending Wilderness and wildlife with our allies.
A recent piece by a U.S. Forest Service research fellow supporting manipulating designated Wilderness areas showed a profound misunderstanding about Wilderness, its history, its stewardship policies, ...
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29 likes, 3 comments - wildideapod on June 9, 2026: "After Hurricane Helene, parts of the Southern Appalachians were left with overwhelming damage, including hundreds of trees down across remote backc...
