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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 4h

We're having a successful and inspiring board meeting here in the northern part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem!

The board and staff are incredibly grateful for all the Wilderness advocacy that our members and supporters engage in, as well as your generous support!

Thank you!

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 20h

Happy October, Wilderness Watchers!

Our fall newsletter is hot off the press.

Check out what we've been doing—with your help and support—to defend America's National Wilderness Preservation System.

>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this important new film about advocates who are working to defend and preserve Wilderness and wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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Watch "The Wild Gallatins," A Film About Recreation, Wildlife, and Wilderness Near Yellowstone National Park

Do we have the foresight and humility to protect one of the last expanses of Yellowstone's wild country?

open.substack.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 1d

Founded in 1989, Wilderness Watch is the leading national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Today, Wilderness Watch includes over 3,000 members and 150,000 supporters.

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 1d

“The Wilderness Act promises that places like Lusk Creek remain wild, free from roads and motorized intrusion. By authorizing this road, the Forest Service is breaking that promise—and we’re going to court to defend this special place."

Details >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/lusk-creek-r...

Lawsuit filed over illegal road plan in Lusk Creek Wilderness

Forest Service’s road plan violates the Wilderness Act.

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 2d

"Make no mistake: wildlife will pay the price, along with those of us humans who value peace, solitude and healthy public wildlands." – Howie Wolke, Wilderness Watch board of directors

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Viewpoint: Rescinding roadless rule would be ecological disaster

Howie Wolke writes, Roadless wildlands include some of the world’s best wildlife habitats – where rare and threatened species such as grizzly and wolverine thrive – not to mention elk, bighorn sheep a...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly, the message in this essay written by Wilderness Watch’s Katie Bilodeau on last year’s 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act remains as important as ever.

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Please, no diamonds for the Wilderness Act’s 60th anniversary - Wilderness Watch

The 1964 Wilderness Act celebrates its 60th anniversary on September 3rd. Diamonds are a gift for a 60th wedding anniversary and presumably represent strength, but from a humanitarian lens diamonds ha...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 6d

"Two groups that advocate for forests and wilderness are suing the US Forest service to stop construction of a road in the Shawnee National Forest. The groups—Wilderness Watch and Heartwood—filed suit Tuesday in Federal Court in the Southern District of Illinois."

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Lawsuit filed to stop road construction in Shawnee National Forest

Two groups that advocate for forests and wilderness are suing the US Forest service to stop construction of a road in the Shawnee National Forest. The groups - Wilderness Watch and Heartwood filed sui...

www.wsiu.org

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 6d

Wilderness Watch and Heartwood sued the U.S. Forest Service this week to stop construction of a 2.5-mile road through the Lusk Creek Wilderness in the Shawnee National Forest of southern Illinois.

Full details here >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...

Groups sue Forest Service over illegal road plan in Lusk Creek Wilderness

Agency approved road-building and access scheme violate the Wilderness Act

wildernesswatch.substack.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 6d

Urge Congress to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act to defend clean water and Wilderness!

>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/no-mining-in...

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Will mining destroy America’s most-visited wilderness?

The Trump administration is moving rapidly to approve a mine next to the Boundary Waters that many fear will pollute the pristine wilderness area.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 6d

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 7d

Our favorite color is October! 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂

📸 Zion Wilderness by Tom Andrews, wildlandart.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING NEWS!

Wilderness Watch and Heartwood have sued the U.S. Forest Service to stop construction of a 2.5-mile road through the Lusk Creek Wilderness in the Shawnee National Forest of southern Illinois.

wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/groups-sue...

Groups sue Forest Service over illegal road plan in Lusk Creek Wilderness

Agency approved road-building and access scheme violate the Wilderness Act

wildernesswatch.substack.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 7d

"A light-colored sow grizzly and her two darker cubs of the year watch us from across the gravel bar as we wade the calf-deep creek. We are too close for comfort, but we’re at a narrow bottleneck of the valley bottom."

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Among the grizzlies in the Denali Wilderness - Wilderness Watch

A light-colored sow grizzly and her two darker cubs of the year watch us from across the gravel bar as we wade the calf-deep creek. We are too close for comfort, but we’re at a narrow bottleneck of th...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 8d

Keep Wilderness Wild!

Stop Congress from killing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across the entire lower 48 states so trophy hunters and trappers can kill even more wolves!

>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 8d

Get this:

The Forest Service recently renewed 62 existing outfitter permits in the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, and Great Bear Wildernesses in Montana without any environmental analysis or disclosure of these commercial operations’ impacts!

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Commercial outfitter permits renewed in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex - Wilderness Watch

Despite the concerns raised by Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and other conservation groups, the Forest Service recently renewed 62 existing outfitter permits in the Bob Marshall, Scape...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 8d

The Forest Service is proposing to replace a useless, dilapidated, sheet metal Quonset hut in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness in Utah with an undisclosed number of helicopter flights and landings, and using jackhammers, cement mixers, and other motorized tools.

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Foolhardy construction project proposed in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness - Wilderness Watch

The Forest Service (FS) is proposing to replace a useless, dilapidated, sheet metal Quonset hut in the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness in Utah. The hut was damaged by snow during the winter of 2021-2022. ...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 8d

"Conflating recreation with conservation completely fails to preserve Wilderness. A mountain goat and her kids crossing the steep terrain of the Northern Rockies, as goats have done for eight million years, will never generate profit like the climbing industry."

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Conflating recreation with conservation is not Wilderness preservation - Wilderness Watch

In the final hours of the 118th Congress, the Senate took up and passed the EXPLORE Act, which former President Biden signed into law on January 6. Some of our members reached out, confused after seei...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 8d

Do we have the foresight and humility to protect one of the last expanses of Yellowstone's wild country?

open.substack.com/pub/ourpubli...

Watch "The Wild Gallatins," A Film About Recreation, Wildlife, and Wilderness Near Yellowstone National Park

Do we have the foresight and humility to protect one of the last expanses of Yellowstone's wild country?

open.substack.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9d

Wilderness Watch is pushing back against the Forest Service’s proposal to more than double visitor fees for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, one of the most visited in the National Wilderness Preservation System.

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Forest Service should not increase visitor fees for the Boundary Waters - Wilderness Watch

Wilderness Watch is pushing back against the Forest Service’s (FS) proposal to more than double visitor fees for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota, one of the most visited...

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9d

"Do we not want rivers to flow into oceans? Do we not want trees to grow wildly in forests? Do we not want wildfires to burn across these fire-dependent landscapes in a sweeping canvas of renewal?" - Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch

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Thinking in wilderness time - Wilderness Watch

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 9d

"The best way to preserve the wildlife, scenic values, and wild country that are part of our national heritage is to designate 230,000 to 250,000 acres of the Gallatin Range as wilderness."

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Wilderness is Gold Standard--The Wild Gallatin Range Deserve Nothing Less

Thirty years ago, I formed, along with several other activists, the Park County Environmental Council (originally called Crazy Paradise) based in Livingston.

georgewuerthner.substack.com

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 13d

Grizzly bears belong in the wild, not in the crosshairs of trophy hunters!

ACT NOW >>> bearsbelong.com/grizzlybearact

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 13d

FOIA lawsuit seeks the calendar entries of top DOGE operatives and other political appointees.

www.publicdomain.media/p/public-dom...

Public Domain sues Trump's Interior Department

Our first FOIA lawsuit seeks the calendar entries of top DOGE operatives and other political appointees.

www.publicdomain.media

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 13d

Livestock grazing is already permitted on 25 percent of all Wilderness acres in the Lower 48 states.

The so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" could mean even more cows and cow 💩 in Wilderness.

ACT NOW to defend Wilderness!

>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/fix-our-fore...

Tell your senators to oppose the “Fix Our Forests Act”

“Fix Our Forests Act” threatens Wilderness with more livestock grazing and manager-ignited fires.

wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org

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