Wilderness Watch
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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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Federal judge overturns a U.S. Forest Service plan to poison Buffalo Creek in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness!
Court rules in favor of Wilderness Watch, strikes down agency poisoning plan in Buffalo Creek watershed near Yellowstone National Park.
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/federal-ju...
Court rules in favor of Wilderness Watch, strikes down agency poisoning plan in Buffalo Creek watershed near Yellowstone National Park.
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/federal-ju...
GivingTuesday is December 2. But you don’t have to wait until then to make a donation!
Better yet, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
Tap below to DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Better yet, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
Tap below to DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
GivingTuesday is December 2. But you don’t have to wait until then to make a donation!
Better yet, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
Tap below to DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Better yet, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
Tap below to DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Speak up for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem!
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Speak up for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem!
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
The United States is blessed with a 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System that is beautiful in all seasons.
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The United States is blessed with a 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System that is beautiful in all seasons.
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Three lawsuits, including one by Wilderness Watch and our allies, take aim at a Trump administration-approved land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
Tribes and environmental groups sue to stop road planned for Alaska wildlife refuge | Alaska Beacon
Three lawsuits take aim at a land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Three lawsuits, including one by Wilderness Watch and our allies, take aim at a Trump administration-approved land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
Wilderness is not a tree farm!
The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" would weaken the Wilderness Act and allow for logging, burning, and roads through giant sequoia groves in designated Wilderness areas in California.
Urge you rep to oppose >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" would weaken the Wilderness Act and allow for logging, burning, and roads through giant sequoia groves in designated Wilderness areas in California.
Urge you rep to oppose >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
Wilderness is not a tree farm
Keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wilderness is not a tree farm!
The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" would weaken the Wilderness Act and allow for logging, burning, and roads through giant sequoia groves in designated Wilderness areas in California.
Urge you rep to oppose >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
The deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" would weaken the Wilderness Act and allow for logging, burning, and roads through giant sequoia groves in designated Wilderness areas in California.
Urge you rep to oppose >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
The Trump proposal targets many of the species that define the quality and character of America’s National Wilderness Preservation System in order to appease special interests that hate the idea of sharing the landscape with other critters.
Trump administration proposes fundamentally weakening Endangered Species Act with harmful new rules
The proposed rules would undermine extremely popular law; public has 30-days to submit comments
wildernesswatch.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Trump proposal targets many of the species that define the quality and character of America’s National Wilderness Preservation System in order to appease special interests that hate the idea of sharing the landscape with other critters.
"Where do wolves get to be wolves?"
It's a good question.
And with the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming continuing to wage a bloody war on wolves, not even wilderness areas are safe havens for wolves.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/where-d...
It's a good question.
And with the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming continuing to wage a bloody war on wolves, not even wilderness areas are safe havens for wolves.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/where-d...
'Where do wolves get to be wolves?' What happens when canis lupus leaves Yellowstone
Crossing Yellowstone National Park’s protective boundary, an apex predator becomes prey. These wolves don’t last long in the modern Mountain West.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Where do wolves get to be wolves?"
It's a good question.
And with the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming continuing to wage a bloody war on wolves, not even wilderness areas are safe havens for wolves.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/where-d...
It's a good question.
And with the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming continuing to wage a bloody war on wolves, not even wilderness areas are safe havens for wolves.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/where-d...
We have a vision for a world where wildness is the defining characteristic of Wilderness and there are ample places of wildness and solitude undisturbed by human beings.
📸 Allen Pecorino
📸 Allen Pecorino
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We have a vision for a world where wildness is the defining characteristic of Wilderness and there are ample places of wildness and solitude undisturbed by human beings.
📸 Allen Pecorino
📸 Allen Pecorino
Wilderness Watch and allies have sued Interior and King Cove Corp for signing a land exchange agreement with the sole purpose of facilitating construction of a 13-mile road through the protected tundra and wetlands of the Izembek Wilderness.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wilderness Watch and allies have sued Interior and King Cove Corp for signing a land exchange agreement with the sole purpose of facilitating construction of a 13-mile road through the protected tundra and wetlands of the Izembek Wilderness.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
If you wondered what the Wilderness Watch staff was reading today, this is it. Check out this essay!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you wondered what the Wilderness Watch staff was reading today, this is it. Check out this essay!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Livestock grazing on public lands got you down?
With 225 million acres of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management—including 13 million acres of Wilderness—open to livestock grazing it's easy to see why!
Check out this webinar to help make a difference!
With 225 million acres of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management—including 13 million acres of Wilderness—open to livestock grazing it's easy to see why!
Check out this webinar to help make a difference!
Join WWP for a live demo of Cow Pie Pal, our new smartphone app that empowers public lands users to document livestock damage and hold agencies accountable.
NOV 19 @ 6PM MT. REGISTER: tinyurl.com/cowpiepal
NOV 19 @ 6PM MT. REGISTER: tinyurl.com/cowpiepal
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Livestock grazing on public lands got you down?
With 225 million acres of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management—including 13 million acres of Wilderness—open to livestock grazing it's easy to see why!
Check out this webinar to help make a difference!
With 225 million acres of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management—including 13 million acres of Wilderness—open to livestock grazing it's easy to see why!
Check out this webinar to help make a difference!
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers 260 designated Wilderness areas, which accounts for approximately 9 percent of the acreage within America’s 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-nightmar...
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-nightmar...
A Nightmare at the BLM
Trump's nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management may be his most extreme yet
morethanjustparks.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers 260 designated Wilderness areas, which accounts for approximately 9 percent of the acreage within America’s 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-nightmar...
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-nightmar...
"The threat to wolves from humans has rarely been greater. Now more than ever, we must broaden our empathy and compassion, ensuring that our choices reflect care for not just ourselves, but also for the wildlife and other beings who share this planet."
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
Dispatches from the Wild: Montana’s record-high wolf quota | Explore Big Sky
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Years ago, I hiked with two friends in a remote area of Glacier National Park during early November. Western larch trees blazed with the color of butterscotch, th...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The threat to wolves from humans has rarely been greater. Now more than ever, we must broaden our empathy and compassion, ensuring that our choices reflect care for not just ourselves, but also for the wildlife and other beings who share this planet."
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness Watch, and allied groups sued Interior Department for illegal land swap that threatens Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness.
If built, road would essentially cut the Wilderness in two.
wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...
If built, road would essentially cut the Wilderness in two.
wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...
Groups sue Interior for illegal land swap that threatens Izembek National Wildlife Refuge
Road through the Izembek Wilderness would essentially cut the Wilderness in two
wildernesswatch.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness Watch, and allied groups sued Interior Department for illegal land swap that threatens Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness.
If built, road would essentially cut the Wilderness in two.
wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...
If built, road would essentially cut the Wilderness in two.
wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...
"Becoming a monthly donor is rewarding and easy. Please join me and others by making the same commitment to our shared wild places, assuredly now more important than ever!" – Marty Almquist, Wilderness Watch monthly donor
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Make a commitment to our shared wild places today - Wilderness Watch
By Marty Almquist
wildernesswatch.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Becoming a monthly donor is rewarding and easy. Please join me and others by making the same commitment to our shared wild places, assuredly now more important than ever!" – Marty Almquist, Wilderness Watch monthly donor
wildernesswatch.org/make-a-commi...
wildernesswatch.org/make-a-commi...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to prevent even more livestock from harming Wilderness!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462
wildernesswatch.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Reposted by Wilderness Watch
Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to publicly oppose Senator Lee’s S.2967, which allows DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System.
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to publicly oppose Senator Lee’s S.2967, which allows DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System.
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to publicly oppose Senator Lee’s S.2967, which allows DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System.
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to publicly oppose Senator Lee’s S.2967, which allows DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System.
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Details —> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/new-border...
Our lawsuit victory will keep poisons and 80 helicopter landings out of the wild Buffalo Creek drainage in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness north of Yellowstone National Park!
Lean more about our recent landmark victory for wilderness protection!
> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/buffalo-cree...
Lean more about our recent landmark victory for wilderness protection!
> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/buffalo-cree...
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our lawsuit victory will keep poisons and 80 helicopter landings out of the wild Buffalo Creek drainage in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness north of Yellowstone National Park!
Lean more about our recent landmark victory for wilderness protection!
> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/buffalo-cree...
Lean more about our recent landmark victory for wilderness protection!
> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/buffalo-cree...
URGENT: Please raise your voice to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click for call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click for call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
URGENT: Please raise your voice to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click for call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click for call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to oppose Sen Mike Lee's "Border Lands Conservation Act" (S.2967), which would amend the Wilderness Act to allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance tech in ALL WILDERNESS areas!
—> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/senator-mi...
—> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/senator-mi...
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to oppose Sen Mike Lee's "Border Lands Conservation Act" (S.2967), which would amend the Wilderness Act to allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance tech in ALL WILDERNESS areas!
—> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/senator-mi...
—> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/senator-mi...
Help end livestock damage across 13 million acres of Wilderness!
Urge your U.S. House rep co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (H.R.5785).
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
Urge your U.S. House rep co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (H.R.5785).
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
Urge Congress to pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act
Raise your voice to protect Wilderness, watersheds, and native wildlife.
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Help end livestock damage across 13 million acres of Wilderness!
Urge your U.S. House rep co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (H.R.5785).
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
Urge your U.S. House rep co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (H.R.5785).
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
Defend clean water in the Boundary Waters Wilderness!
Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...
Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Defend clean water in the Boundary Waters Wilderness!
Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...
Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...