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The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, is the smallest subspecies of gray wolf and also one of the most endangered carnivores in the world.
But Congress is attempting to silence the quintessential call of the lobo across the American Southwest!
ACT NOW!
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Many people think that Wildernesses, those beautiful, wild areas designated by Congress under the 1964 Wilderness Act, are off limits to grazing by cattle and sheep. Unfortunately that is not the case.
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The spring issue of our newsletter, the Wilderness Watcher, is hot off the press!
Read it to see how we're defending Wilderness and its wildlife in Congress, the courts, and on the ground.
We're grateful for the support and actions of our members!
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We've raised concerns about a proposed U.S. Forest Service industrial logging project on the Flathead National Forest in Montana, which would violate the Wilderness Act and negatively impact the Great Bear Wilderness.
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The Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is too wild and too special to be ruined by oil and gas development!
We're grateful to over 8,100 of our members and supporters who recently spoke up to help stop oil and gas development.
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The U.S. Senate could vote THIS WEEK on a bill overturning the 20-year mining moratorium in the Boundary Waters Wilderness watershed!
Please CALL YOUR TWO SENATORS TODAY at 202-224-3121 and tell them to “Vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140!”
🚨 Freedom of Information Act reveals U.S. Forest Service considering nationwide chainsaw use in Wilderness.
According to FOIA documents, Forest Service may let commercial outfitters run chainsaws through Wilderness and the Wilderness Act.
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Freedom of Information Act reveals U.S. Forest Service considering nationwide chainsaw use in Wilderness.
According to FOIA documents, Forest Service considering letting commercial outfitters run chainsaws through Wilderness and the Wilderness Act.
wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/foia-revea...
The spring issue of our newsletter, the Wilderness Watcher, is hot off the press!
Read it to see how we're defending Wilderness and its wildlife in Congress, the courts, and on the ground.
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
As rangeland health on federal public lands declines, the Bureau of Land Management simply stops monitoring because science-based public lands management falls victim to Trump budget cuts.
Learn more via @peer.org.
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Wilderness Watch is concerned about the Forest Service’s (FS) Granite Moccasin Project, a proposal to log 4,689 acres across the Flathead National Forest in northwest Montana, including 175 acres next...
Recent reporting has exposed some of the many ongoing problems with livestock grazing on federal public lands. These problems include great resource damage, little oversight or repair of that damage, ...
In February 2026, the Trump administration opened a 30-day “Call for Nominations and Comments for the 2026 Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Lease Sale” period during which oil and gas companies were invited ...
Congress is attempting to silence the call of the lobo across the American Southwest.
