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.
Leaping into 2026!
Happy New Year, Wilderness Watchers!
Happy New Year, Wilderness Watchers!
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Leaping into 2026!
Happy New Year, Wilderness Watchers!
Happy New Year, Wilderness Watchers!
If you were planning to make a donation to Wilderness Watch before the end of the year, there is “bear-ly” any time left to do it!
Your generous support will help Wilderness Watch protect Wilderness and its wildlife in 2026 and beyond. Thank you!
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Your generous support will help Wilderness Watch protect Wilderness and its wildlife in 2026 and beyond. Thank you!
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December 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you were planning to make a donation to Wilderness Watch before the end of the year, there is “bear-ly” any time left to do it!
Your generous support will help Wilderness Watch protect Wilderness and its wildlife in 2026 and beyond. Thank you!
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Your generous support will help Wilderness Watch protect Wilderness and its wildlife in 2026 and beyond. Thank you!
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"If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is." – Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch
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Viewpoint: Tool enables lawmakers to meddle in public lands
Katie Bilodeau writes, If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is." – Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch
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Please make a special donation today so that we can continue to fight for Wilderness and its wildlife.
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
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We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
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Help us meet the challenges ahead
Your support makes all of our Wilderness defense work possible
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December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please make a special donation today so that we can continue to fight for Wilderness and its wildlife.
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
• Twenty years after the 2002 McNally fire scorched the Sierra, the forest shows dramatic recovery.
• Dead trees and brush that appear barren actually provide crucial wildlife habitat, challenging assumptions about fire’s long-term impact.
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• Dead trees and brush that appear barren actually provide crucial wildlife habitat, challenging assumptions about fire’s long-term impact.
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A return to a past Sierra wildfire to see the future of a recent one
The first two miles were pleasant enough. The grade was mild, the forest serene.
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December 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
• Twenty years after the 2002 McNally fire scorched the Sierra, the forest shows dramatic recovery.
• Dead trees and brush that appear barren actually provide crucial wildlife habitat, challenging assumptions about fire’s long-term impact.
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• Dead trees and brush that appear barren actually provide crucial wildlife habitat, challenging assumptions about fire’s long-term impact.
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"They will not replace me if I leave. I have to hope that by staying I can be the bridge to the next generation of wilderness rangers."
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They will not replace me if I leave: A wilderness ranger’s 2025 season - Wilderness Watch
I’m a quarter mile into my hike when the tears start to fall. I can’t control them these days. I’m at work, wearing my uniform, and I do not want to be crying right now. I briefly contemplate walking ...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"They will not replace me if I leave. I have to hope that by staying I can be the bridge to the next generation of wilderness rangers."
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Please make a special donation today so that we can continue to fight for Wilderness and its wildlife.
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
Help us meet the challenges ahead
Your support makes all of our Wilderness defense work possible
wildernesswatch.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please make a special donation today so that we can continue to fight for Wilderness and its wildlife.
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
We rely on people like you for nearly all of our funding, and this is the most critical time in that regard.
Please be as generous as you can!
>>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/help-us-me...
Happy Winter Solstice!
The light returns!
The light returns!
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
The light returns!
The light returns!
"Congress has launched us into a labyrinth of uncertainty. If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is." - Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch
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The Congressional Review Act: A New Tool for Lawmakers to Radically Meddle in Public Land Management
Radical? Not me. In a House Natural Resources Committee hearing earlier this year, after one lawmaker finished complaining about “radical
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December 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Congress has launched us into a labyrinth of uncertainty. If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is." - Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch
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The falsely-named “Fix Our Forests Act“ will dramatically change how America’s national forests will be managed, and Wilderness and its wildlife won’t be spared.
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Contact your senators and tell them to VOTE NO on the "Fix Our Forests Act"
Bill would harm Wilderness with more livestock
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December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The falsely-named “Fix Our Forests Act“ will dramatically change how America’s national forests will be managed, and Wilderness and its wildlife won’t be spared.
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Our winter newsletter just dropped!
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground—with your actions and generous support.
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See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground—with your actions and generous support.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our winter newsletter just dropped!
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground—with your actions and generous support.
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See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground—with your actions and generous support.
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
The full U.S. House is expected to hold a floor vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act” (H.R. 845), which is a direct threat to gray wolves across the lower 48 states.
Please write your Rep today!
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Please write your Rep today!
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Keep Wilderness Wild
Stop Congress from killing ESA protections for gray wolves.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The full U.S. House is expected to hold a floor vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act” (H.R. 845), which is a direct threat to gray wolves across the lower 48 states.
Please write your Rep today!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
Please write your Rep today!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
"With 27 percent of Summit County consisting of wilderness areas, protecting them is worth doing — not just because we wish to recreate there, or because we feel a moral obligation to protect all forms of life, but also because it makes economic sense."
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Get Wild: Wilderness makes ‘cents’
For many of us, wilderness areas — those priceless natural lands preserved under the 1964 Wilderness Act — have intrinsic value as federally protected habitat for wildlife and plants species and place...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"With 27 percent of Summit County consisting of wilderness areas, protecting them is worth doing — not just because we wish to recreate there, or because we feel a moral obligation to protect all forms of life, but also because it makes economic sense."
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Even if you’ve already urged your senators to oppose the “Fix Our Forests Act,” it’s imperative that you speak up again as the Senate may vote on the bill any day.
Constant pressure, constantly applied is the best strategy we have to fight this bill!
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Constant pressure, constantly applied is the best strategy we have to fight this bill!
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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
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Even if you’ve already urged your senators to oppose the “Fix Our Forests Act,” it’s imperative that you speak up again as the Senate may vote on the bill any day.
Constant pressure, constantly applied is the best strategy we have to fight this bill!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/fofa_possibl...
Constant pressure, constantly applied is the best strategy we have to fight this bill!
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Urgent action needed to defend wolves!
The full House could vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act."
The bill would strip federal ESA protections for wolves, turning "management" over to states.
ACT NOW>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
The full House could vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act."
The bill would strip federal ESA protections for wolves, turning "management" over to states.
ACT NOW>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Urgent action needed to defend wolves!
The full House could vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act."
The bill would strip federal ESA protections for wolves, turning "management" over to states.
ACT NOW>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
The full House could vote this week on Rep Lauren Boebert's so-called “Pet and Livestock Protection Act."
The bill would strip federal ESA protections for wolves, turning "management" over to states.
ACT NOW>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr845...
Senator Mike Lee's (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" could allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
TAKE ACTION!
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TAKE ACTION!
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New border bill guts Wilderness Act
America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System could be impacted!
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December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Senator Mike Lee's (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" could allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
TAKE ACTION!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/border-bill
TAKE ACTION!
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"If wild animals are not safe in Wilderness, then there is nowhere safe for them left in the world." – Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch
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Domestic Sheep Grazing and Wilderness are Always at Odds
Stumbling over the rugged alpine landscape of the High Uintas Wilderness, a bighorn lamb is coughing and struggling, afflicted with pneumonia as the cold
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December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"If wild animals are not safe in Wilderness, then there is nowhere safe for them left in the world." – Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch
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Our recent 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 this landmark victory for wilderness protection!
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Lean more about this landmark victory for wilderness protection!
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December 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Our recent 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 this landmark victory for wilderness protection!
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Lean more about this landmark victory for wilderness protection!
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The Trump administration recently launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska—places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to safeguard for decades.
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Trump administration attacks iconic wildlands in Alaska - Wilderness Watch
On October 23, the Trump administration launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska, places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Trump administration recently launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska—places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to safeguard for decades.
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Removing federal Endangered Species Act protections for threatened grizzly bears would allow Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to start trophy hunting seasons that would put grizzlies back on the path toward extinction.
Speak up for the Great Bear!
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Speak up for the Great Bear!
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December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Removing federal Endangered Species Act protections for threatened grizzly bears would allow Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to start trophy hunting seasons that would put grizzlies back on the path toward extinction.
Speak up for the Great Bear!
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Speak up for the Great Bear!
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Here's an excellent new essay from Wilderness Watch's Mason Parker detailing our objection to a U.S. Forest Service decision to release another 10,000 domestic sheep into nearly one third of the High Uintas Wilderness in Utah.
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Domestic sheep grazing and Wilderness are always at odds
By Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch
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December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here's an excellent new essay from Wilderness Watch's Mason Parker detailing our objection to a U.S. Forest Service decision to release another 10,000 domestic sheep into nearly one third of the High Uintas Wilderness in Utah.
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Our friends at Last Best Store have 100% ORGANIC Wilderness Watch gear available and they will even donate a portion of the proceeds back to Wilderness Watch!
Makes a perfect holiday gift for your Wilderness-loving friends and family, or yourself!
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Makes a perfect holiday gift for your Wilderness-loving friends and family, or yourself!
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December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our friends at Last Best Store have 100% ORGANIC Wilderness Watch gear available and they will even donate a portion of the proceeds back to Wilderness Watch!
Makes a perfect holiday gift for your Wilderness-loving friends and family, or yourself!
>>> www.lastbeststore.com/collections/...
Makes a perfect holiday gift for your Wilderness-loving friends and family, or yourself!
>>> www.lastbeststore.com/collections/...
Wilderness Watch and our allies have sued Trump's Interior Department for an illegal land swap threatening the Izembek Wilderness and its wildlife with a new road that would cut the Wilderness in two.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wilderness Watch and our allies have sued Trump's Interior Department for an illegal land swap threatening the Izembek Wilderness and its wildlife with a new road that would cut the Wilderness in two.
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—> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
The “Fix Our Forests Act” (S. 1462) would override bedrock environmental laws to increase damaging livestock grazing and widespread use of manager-ignited fire in Wilderness.
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO!
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Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO!
Call script >>> 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
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December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The “Fix Our Forests Act” (S. 1462) would override bedrock environmental laws to increase damaging livestock grazing and widespread use of manager-ignited fire in Wilderness.
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO!
Call script >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO!
Call script >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Our winter newsletter is hot off the press!
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground.
A special thank you to our members for all your support!
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground.
A special thank you to our members for all your support!
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Our winter newsletter is hot off the press!
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground.
A special thank you to our members for all your support!
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
See how we're defending Wilderness in the courts, in Congress, and on the ground.
A special thank you to our members for all your support!
>>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...