Wilderness Connect

A national communications, education, and science dissemination program about wilderness.

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"The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one."

--Edward Abbey, writer and naturalist (from The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West, 1977)

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Just miles from New York City's skyscrapers, herons stalk through grassy wetlands and startled white-tailed deer leap over thickets of catbrier in the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness.

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Alaska Wilderness Film Week will celebrate 60 years of connecting with the most special places on earth! The three-day event will showcase the different ways people connect to Alaska’s wilderness lands.

Learn more about the event and films here: https://t.co/mYyH9gpfLH

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The Upland Island Wilderness may be the most interesting Texas national forestland acreage, with flora ranging from the carnivorous pitcher plant to wild azaleas and rose pogonias.

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The National Park Service Alaska Region is reimagining the idea of wilderness in a way that recognizes and honors human connections with the land.

Read more here: https://t.co/s6HTrZ16sV

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Our website hosts an ever-expanding library of photos and videos from designated wilderness areas all over the country.

Search for a photo or video and learn how to submit your own here: https://t.co/hP7E6IgFWa

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"The only thing we know for sure about the future is that it will be radically different from the past. In face of this enormous uncertainty, the least we can do for future generations is to pass on as many of the planet’s resources as possible."

--Norman Myers, Author

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The Misty Fjords Wilderness is part of a vast coastal rain forest marked by deep valleys with steep slopes and sharp intervalley ridge. Numerous fjords offer excellent sea-kayaking opportunities.

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Today is Indigenous People's Day. The story of wilderness is inextricably connected to Indigenous Peoples who stewarded the land long before any designations. Ranger Emily Dayhoff, who is Southern Sierra Miwuk & Chukchansi Yokut, cleans willow for a basket in Yosemite NP.

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The wilderness movement is driven, in large part, by the contributions of many local, regional, and national wilderness stewardship and advocacy organizations.

Find an organization or add yours on our website: https://t.co/o3uZkxL6te

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Set along approximately 7,300 feet of undeveloped shoreline, Nordhouse Dunes is the only designated Wilderness on Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Learn more on our website: https://t.co/69CARNrcSa

Photo: Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness (Stacy Duke)

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In a recent opinion piece for MinnPost, Lukas Leaf and Ingrid Lyons emphasize the importance of protecting Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in light of the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.

Read it here: https://t.co/Y35eR1rCHx

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"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."

--Wallace Stegner

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New Hampshire's Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness features spectacular autumn foliage and 43 miles of hiking trails to enjoy.

Learn more on our website: https://t.co/AShy5s8Oh7

Photo: Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness (Steve Boutcher)

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Want to hear what you missed at WILD 12? The Voices of Wilderness podcast, produced by the WILD Foundation, has episodes that covered the event and additional conversations with some of its speakers.

Give it a listen here: https://t.co/56KD2JKsyp

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The Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness encompasses the deepest narrow canyon in America and has become a paradise for climbers, anglers and river runners from all over the world.

Learn more on our website: https://t.co/p2TLioXPwj

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In a recent episode of NPR's Up First podcast, host Ayesha Rascoe talks with reporter Marissa Ortega-Welch about her new series, How Wild, which explores the meaning of "wilderness" on a changing planet.

Give it a listen here: https://t.co/EYeuSIw8x4

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Although the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Park Service share many similarities, significant differences exist. Access policy documents and other resources specific to each agency on our website: https://t.co/FD3s1avTcg

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"To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part."

--Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949)

Photo: Congaree National Park Wilderness (Mark Kinzer)

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At the Blackbeard Island Wilderness, interconnected sand dunes separate the numerous ponds and savannas that fill with seasonal rain and provide homes for waterfowl and wading birds.

Learn more on our website: https://t.co/whzrvQFSps