Wilderness Watch

Keeping America's National Wilderness Preservation System wild. Tap link in bio to take action and become a member. 📸 St. Marks Wilderness by Allen D.Pecorino

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Together, WE DID IT!!!

H.R. 1897—the bill weakening the Endangered Species Act and protections for threatened and endangered species—was just pulled from the floor vote scheduled today in the U.S House!

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It is THIS time of the year across the National Wilderness Preservation System!

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During this webinar on Thursday, June 11, you will learn more about why this Forest Service action goes beyond just chainsaws, and what you can do to halt moves like this that strike at the very core of the Wilderness Act.

>>> https://t.co/1s3bpanQOg

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Livestock are currently authorized to graze nearly 25 percent of all Wilderness acres in the lower 48 states.

New livestock grazing rules proposed by the Trump administration would greatly expanded destructive livestock grazing, including in Wilderness.

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Nature’s version of an infinity pool.

📸 Leon Werdinger

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Please join Wilderness Watch and the Great Old Broads for Wilderness on Thursday, June 11 at 5pm MDT for a webinar about “Chainsaws and the Wilderness Act.”

Register here: https://t.co/ETwhgsgoTC

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“To those who have known the wilderness, there can be no other place like it.” — Sigurd F. Olson

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Our pals at Friends of the Clearwater seek a forest policy director with a love for wild nature to contribute to their organizational mission to protect the wildlands of the Clearwater Basin in North-Central Idaho. Tap below for more information.

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Wilderness Watch and our supporters helped preserve the wildness of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, while offering a path forward for allowing lightning-ignited fire to resume its natural role in renewing the forests of the Boundary Waters.

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After you watch the webinar, please also call your two senators at [phone] and urge them to oppose the “Fix Our Forests Act” (S. 1462).

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This webinar dives into the language of the so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" to highlight how a cleverly hidden loophole in S. 1462 would nullify any potential enforcement of all federal environmental laws on national forests and BLM lands nationwide.

>>> https://t.co/hzbLyzNpQb

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We're celebrating a good decision for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and the National Wilderness System.

Thanks to thousands of our supporters who took action to keep chainsaws, aircraft, and mechanical drip torches out of Wilderness!

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Our new lawsuit with our allies is challenging the U.S. government’s policy of allowing federal agents to kill wildlife—including wolves, bears, cougars, and coyotes using poisons, traps, and aerial gunning—inside designated Wilderness.

Learn more >>> https://t.co/Whfu6Ptssr

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This piece was written in 2019, but it's more relevant than ever as the U.S. Forest Service just approved giving commercial outfitters permission to use gas powered chainsaws for 7 months a year for up to 3 years in the River of No Return Wilderness.

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Wilderness Watch is pushing back on a Bureau of Land Management proposal to open the Keg Knoll airstrip in the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness just northwest of Canyonlands National Park in Utah to more backcountry aircraft.

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"Most western conifer forests have always harbored mixed- to high-severity fire. And by most, I mean 85%, according to Land Fire database. Only 15% - mostly in Arizona and New Mexico - is low severity.” – University of Montana ecologist Richard Hutto

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"Forest managers claim logging projects are needed to restore Western forests and protect them from catastrophic wildfire, but a former University of Montana professor has research to show that isn’t so."

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“We absolutely do not believe this authorization is legal under the Wilderness Act or the National Environmental Policy Act,” said Dana Johnson, policy director at Wilderness Watch.

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Together with our allies, we’ve just filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s policy of allowing federal agents to kill wildlife—including wolves, bears, cougars, and coyotes using poisons, traps, and aerial gunning—inside designated Wilderness.

https://t.co/hZrMiTLlYL

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The lawsuit asks the court to establish that the Wilderness Act prohibits “predator control” for commercial grazing operations in Wilderness, vacate the federal policies authorizing these activities, and permanently prohibit such practices going forward.

https://t.co/Whfu6Ptssr

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BREAKING!

New lawsuit challenges wildlife killing by federal agents inside Wilderness.

USDA’s Wildlife Services authorizes federally-subsidized “predator control” across millions of acres of public lands nationwide.

>>> https://t.co/Whfu6Ptssr

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“Killing native species to appease the livestock industry violates the Wilderness Act,” said Dan Brister of Wilderness Watch. “In Wilderness, Congress mandated that the Forest Service protect nature—not industry profits.”

>>> https://t.co/Whfu6Ptssr