The Wilderness Society
@wilderness.org
Uniting people to protect America’s wild places🌲🌊🏔
BREAKING: The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next week to strip vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters, one of the nation’s largest and most visited wilderness areas.
Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters: https://bit.ly/4q5xagM
Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters: https://bit.ly/4q5xagM
Tell the Senate to defend the Boundary Waters!
The Senate could vote soon to revoke vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters.
act.wilderness.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next week to strip vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters, one of the nation’s largest and most visited wilderness areas.
Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters: https://bit.ly/4q5xagM
Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters: https://bit.ly/4q5xagM
“Sadly, ConocoPhillips will now spend the winter disrupting caribou migration and crushing fragile Arctic tundra under massive thumper trucks before a full hearing of our case against this destructive exploration plan,” said Matt Jackson, Alaska senior manager for TWS:
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues - Inside Climate News
When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the proposal was rushed through without adequate protections. Last week, an oil...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
“Sadly, ConocoPhillips will now spend the winter disrupting caribou migration and crushing fragile Arctic tundra under massive thumper trucks before a full hearing of our case against this destructive exploration plan,” said Matt Jackson, Alaska senior manager for TWS:
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
https://bit.ly/4rtSBcl
In a new Compact op-ed, TWS President Tracy Stone-Manning shares what she learned running the Bureau of Land Management and why we must rebuild a system that protects clean water, wildlife, and our freedom to get outside for future generations. Read here: https://bit.ly/4qHEdxa
What I Learned Running the BLM
Picture this: America’s forests, rivers, and deserts—our beloved public lands—managed for the future and for all of us.
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January 29, 2026 at 10:58 PM
In a new Compact op-ed, TWS President Tracy Stone-Manning shares what she learned running the Bureau of Land Management and why we must rebuild a system that protects clean water, wildlife, and our freedom to get outside for future generations. Read here: https://bit.ly/4qHEdxa
Despite the recent collapse of ConocoPhillips’ largest mobile drilling rig and thousands of gallons of diesel spilled in the Western Arctic, a federal court has allowed the company’s winter exploration to continue, for now.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4brjmtg
Read more: https://bit.ly/4brjmtg
January 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Despite the recent collapse of ConocoPhillips’ largest mobile drilling rig and thousands of gallons of diesel spilled in the Western Arctic, a federal court has allowed the company’s winter exploration to continue, for now.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4brjmtg
Read more: https://bit.ly/4brjmtg
🚨The House has voted to overturn protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—opening the door to toxic mining in its headwaters.
The Senate MUST stop this.
The Senate MUST stop this.
January 22, 2026 at 7:35 PM
🚨The House has voted to overturn protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—opening the door to toxic mining in its headwaters.
The Senate MUST stop this.
The Senate MUST stop this.
🎉 Happy birthday to us 🎉
91 years ago today, a small group of conservationists gathered around a radical idea: protecting wild places for their own sake. Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has been a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places.
91 years ago today, a small group of conservationists gathered around a radical idea: protecting wild places for their own sake. Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has been a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places.
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 PM
🎉 Happy birthday to us 🎉
91 years ago today, a small group of conservationists gathered around a radical idea: protecting wild places for their own sake. Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has been a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places.
91 years ago today, a small group of conservationists gathered around a radical idea: protecting wild places for their own sake. Since 1935, The Wilderness Society has been a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places.
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Roadless Rule. For a quarter century, it’s helped protect places like the Gila, keeping our national forests intact for hunters, anglers, families, and local communities. Public lands belong to all of us, and this rule helps keep them that way.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Roadless Rule. For a quarter century, it’s helped protect places like the Gila, keeping our national forests intact for hunters, anglers, families, and local communities. Public lands belong to all of us, and this rule helps keep them that way.
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People across the West cherish our public lands. For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of our forests. In the face of Trump’s efforts to repeal this rule and sell our public lands, we’ll always keep fighting to protect these lands for future generations.
January 12, 2026 at 7:19 PM
People across the West cherish our public lands. For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of our forests. In the face of Trump’s efforts to repeal this rule and sell our public lands, we’ll always keep fighting to protect these lands for future generations.
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25 years ago today, the Roadless Rule was created to protect millions of acres of our national forests. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. USDA should listen to the hundreds of thousands calling to leave this rule in place to preserve public lands for wildlife & future generations.
What is the roadless rule and why should you care about it?
What is the Roadless Rule? Why does it matter? And what does its rescission mean for some of our last remaining wild forests?
environmentamerica.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
25 years ago today, the Roadless Rule was created to protect millions of acres of our national forests. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle it. USDA should listen to the hundreds of thousands calling to leave this rule in place to preserve public lands for wildlife & future generations.
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Today marks 25 years of the Roadless Rule. It’s an extremely popular conservation measure that protects many of your favorite hunting spots, hiking trails, biking routes, and fishing streams across the country. But now the Trump administration wants to repeal it.
Today marks 25 years of the Roadless Rule.
YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
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January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Today marks 25 years of the Roadless Rule. It’s an extremely popular conservation measure that protects many of your favorite hunting spots, hiking trails, biking routes, and fishing streams across the country. But now the Trump administration wants to repeal it.
Thank you, Senator Hickenlooper, for your leadership!
Americans need a real steward for our public lands. Steve Pearce, Trump’s pick to lead the BLM, isn’t one.
He opposed environmental protections and pushed to sell public lands when he was in Congress.
Our public lands are NEVER for sale. I'm a NO on his nomination.
He opposed environmental protections and pushed to sell public lands when he was in Congress.
Our public lands are NEVER for sale. I'm a NO on his nomination.
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thank you, Senator Hickenlooper, for your leadership!
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“Donald Trump and his administration are attacking wind projects. They're attacking solar projects."
@kaine.senate.gov called out Trump’s sham "energy emergency" for what it is: a giveaway to Big Oil that is killing jobs & raising costs for working families.
"This is no emergency." 👇
@kaine.senate.gov called out Trump’s sham "energy emergency" for what it is: a giveaway to Big Oil that is killing jobs & raising costs for working families.
"This is no emergency." 👇
February 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Donald Trump and his administration are attacking wind projects. They're attacking solar projects."
@kaine.senate.gov called out Trump’s sham "energy emergency" for what it is: a giveaway to Big Oil that is killing jobs & raising costs for working families.
"This is no emergency." 👇
@kaine.senate.gov called out Trump’s sham "energy emergency" for what it is: a giveaway to Big Oil that is killing jobs & raising costs for working families.
"This is no emergency." 👇
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Trump is the energy emergency—and he’s killing jobs and raising costs. My joint statement with @senatorheinrich.bsky.social regarding Republicans’ rubber-stamping of Trump’s war on affordable, American-made energy:
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump is the energy emergency—and he’s killing jobs and raising costs. My joint statement with @senatorheinrich.bsky.social regarding Republicans’ rubber-stamping of Trump’s war on affordable, American-made energy:
Denali. Standing tall. 🏔️
The name Denali means ‘The High One’ in Koyukon Athabaskan, a name used by Indigenous Alaskans for centuries.
The name Denali means ‘The High One’ in Koyukon Athabaskan, a name used by Indigenous Alaskans for centuries.
February 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Denali. Standing tall. 🏔️
The name Denali means ‘The High One’ in Koyukon Athabaskan, a name used by Indigenous Alaskans for centuries.
The name Denali means ‘The High One’ in Koyukon Athabaskan, a name used by Indigenous Alaskans for centuries.
🚨 The Eastern Hellbender needs your help!
These salamanders keep waterways healthy but are disappearing due to habitat loss and pollution. Storms like Helene have worsened their decline.
Help push for endangered status—submit a comment by Feb. 11!
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
These salamanders keep waterways healthy but are disappearing due to habitat loss and pollution. Storms like Helene have worsened their decline.
Help push for endangered status—submit a comment by Feb. 11!
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
February 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🚨 The Eastern Hellbender needs your help!
These salamanders keep waterways healthy but are disappearing due to habitat loss and pollution. Storms like Helene have worsened their decline.
Help push for endangered status—submit a comment by Feb. 11!
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
These salamanders keep waterways healthy but are disappearing due to habitat loss and pollution. Storms like Helene have worsened their decline.
Help push for endangered status—submit a comment by Feb. 11!
www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
BREAKING: Just days after confirmation, Interior Secretary Burgum ordered expanded oil & gas leasing, lease reinstatement in the Arctic Refuge and potential rollbacks of Biden-era rules—including the Public Lands Rule.
Burgum secretarial orders target monuments, give drilling favored status on public lands
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a series of secretarial orders that position drilling and mining interests as the favored users of America’s public lands and threaten to scrap existing land prot...
www.wilderness.org
February 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
BREAKING: Just days after confirmation, Interior Secretary Burgum ordered expanded oil & gas leasing, lease reinstatement in the Arctic Refuge and potential rollbacks of Biden-era rules—including the Public Lands Rule.
The oil industry shrugs at Trump's effort to drill the Arctic Refuge. Analysts say the risk is too great, and U.S. oil production is already at record levels. Once again, it's clear there's no reason to have a federal leasing program for this special place.
Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill
U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry representatives told Reuters, noting a future president could easily reverse Trump's move.
www.reuters.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The oil industry shrugs at Trump's effort to drill the Arctic Refuge. Analysts say the risk is too great, and U.S. oil production is already at record levels. Once again, it's clear there's no reason to have a federal leasing program for this special place.
President Trump signed a sweeping & destructive executive order on Monday that attempts to erase all Biden administration efforts to protect Alaska’s public lands, Indigenous communities & the climate. The order calls for developing the state’s natural resources “to the fullest extent possible.”
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
President Trump signed a sweeping & destructive executive order on Monday that attempts to erase all Biden administration efforts to protect Alaska’s public lands, Indigenous communities & the climate. The order calls for developing the state’s natural resources “to the fullest extent possible.”
As Dwight Schrute would phrase it, today is the anniversary of our 90th birthday!! 🎂
Since our founding in 1935, we have grown from a small group of conservationists into a leading national organization dedicated to protecting public lands and ensuring everyone has access to nature.
Since our founding in 1935, we have grown from a small group of conservationists into a leading national organization dedicated to protecting public lands and ensuring everyone has access to nature.
January 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As Dwight Schrute would phrase it, today is the anniversary of our 90th birthday!! 🎂
Since our founding in 1935, we have grown from a small group of conservationists into a leading national organization dedicated to protecting public lands and ensuring everyone has access to nature.
Since our founding in 1935, we have grown from a small group of conservationists into a leading national organization dedicated to protecting public lands and ensuring everyone has access to nature.
🚨BREAKING: After pledging once again during his inaugural address to “drill, baby, drill,” President Trump signed a series of executive orders that seek to rapidly dismantle climate and conservation policies.
January 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🚨BREAKING: After pledging once again during his inaugural address to “drill, baby, drill,” President Trump signed a series of executive orders that seek to rapidly dismantle climate and conservation policies.
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC 🚨 The Bureau of Land Management just released a report recognizing the negative impact of oil development on caribou populations in the Western Arctic and highlighting the need for new Special Areas, which are off-limits to drilling.
January 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC 🚨 The Bureau of Land Management just released a report recognizing the negative impact of oil development on caribou populations in the Western Arctic and highlighting the need for new Special Areas, which are off-limits to drilling.
Me for the past few weeks since Benito released his album... 🎶
📸 TWS
📸 TWS
January 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Me for the past few weeks since Benito released his album... 🎶
📸 TWS
📸 TWS
BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court has declined to take up Utah's case seeking to "dispose" of public lands! Great threats continue to loom—but this announcement is a small bright spot.
January 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court has declined to take up Utah's case seeking to "dispose" of public lands! Great threats continue to loom—but this announcement is a small bright spot.
🚨 BREAKING GOOD NEWS: No companies, including Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, bid on a legally mandated oil and gas lease for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain—for the second time.
Arctic Refuge lease sale flops, with zero bids offered
The federal Bureau of Land Management announced that no bids were submitted in response to a second legally mandated oil and gas lease sale for the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
www.wilderness.org
January 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🚨 BREAKING GOOD NEWS: No companies, including Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, bid on a legally mandated oil and gas lease for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain—for the second time.
Nevada’s “Swiss Alps” are one step closer to being protected from oil and gas development to ensure a healthy future for its wildlife, clean air and mountain streams! A mineral withdrawal keeps these lands open to hunters, anglers and everyone else who seeks adventure and refuge in this wild place.
Federal Agencies Move to Protect Nevada’s Ruby Mountains from Oil and Gas Leasing
The Department of the Interior initiates a withdrawal process to safeguard Nevada's Ruby Mountains from oil and gas leasing.
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December 30, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Nevada’s “Swiss Alps” are one step closer to being protected from oil and gas development to ensure a healthy future for its wildlife, clean air and mountain streams! A mineral withdrawal keeps these lands open to hunters, anglers and everyone else who seeks adventure and refuge in this wild place.