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.
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Take action to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
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/...
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.
—> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
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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.
—> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/izembek-liti...
—> 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!
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...
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
wildernesswatch.substack.com
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!
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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...
Last week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining hosted a hearing on a slew of bill, many of which would undermine the protection of Wilderness.
Here's our testimony.
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📸 Architect of the Capitol
Here's our testimony.
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📸 Architect of the Capitol
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Last week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining hosted a hearing on a slew of bill, many of which would undermine the protection of Wilderness.
Here's our testimony.
—> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
📸 Architect of the Capitol
Here's our testimony.
—> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
📸 Architect of the Capitol
Whoa, cowboy!
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10 percent of permit holders.
grist.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Whoa, cowboy!
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
New border bill guts Wilderness Act, potentially impacting all Wilderness in the United States!
Please contact your two senators and urge them to oppose Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" (S. 2967).
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/border-bill
Please contact your two senators and urge them to oppose Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" (S. 2967).
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/border-bill
New border bill guts Wilderness Act
America’s entire 112 million-acre Wilderness System could be impacted!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New border bill guts Wilderness Act, potentially impacting all Wilderness in the United States!
Please contact your two senators and urge them to oppose Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" (S. 2967).
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/border-bill
Please contact your two senators and urge them to oppose Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act" (S. 2967).
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/border-bill
America's National Wilderness Preservation System will take your breath away.
📸 Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch
📸 Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
America's National Wilderness Preservation System will take your breath away.
📸 Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch
📸 Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch
Wilderness is not a tree farm, so please speak up to keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild.
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
Wilderness is not a tree farm
Keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wilderness is not a tree farm, so please speak up to keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild.
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
Take action to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Take action to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Click here for a call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Our government doesn’t want better information. In our upside-down world, if the government spends the time to propose a project with potentially large environmental costs, NEPA and its values are annoying speed bumps to apparently inevitable “progress.”
wildernesswatch.org/rip-nepa/
wildernesswatch.org/rip-nepa/
RIP NEPA - Wilderness Watch
Our leaders are letting the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) die. But, maybe that’s okay. It’s time for a National Environmental Protection Act.
wildernesswatch.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our government doesn’t want better information. In our upside-down world, if the government spends the time to propose a project with potentially large environmental costs, NEPA and its values are annoying speed bumps to apparently inevitable “progress.”
wildernesswatch.org/rip-nepa/
wildernesswatch.org/rip-nepa/
The Trump administration has 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.
Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/trump-admini...
Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/trump-admini...
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...
wildernesswatch.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Trump administration has 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.
Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/trump-admini...
Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/trump-admini...
Wow, we are so grateful for the outpouring of support during GivingTuesday!
You all helped us crush our GivingTuesday goal by raising over $24,000 for the defense of Wilderness. THANK YOU!
📸 Owens Peak Wilderness by Bob Wick/BLM
You all helped us crush our GivingTuesday goal by raising over $24,000 for the defense of Wilderness. THANK YOU!
📸 Owens Peak Wilderness by Bob Wick/BLM
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow, we are so grateful for the outpouring of support during GivingTuesday!
You all helped us crush our GivingTuesday goal by raising over $24,000 for the defense of Wilderness. THANK YOU!
📸 Owens Peak Wilderness by Bob Wick/BLM
You all helped us crush our GivingTuesday goal by raising over $24,000 for the defense of Wilderness. THANK YOU!
📸 Owens Peak Wilderness by Bob Wick/BLM
At Wilderness Watch, individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please consider making a GivingTuesday donation.
As an added incentive, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
DONATE HERE >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
As an added incentive, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
DONATE HERE >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At Wilderness Watch, individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please consider making a GivingTuesday donation.
As an added incentive, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
DONATE HERE >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
As an added incentive, some of our generous members have pledged to DOUBLE all donations up to $20,000!
DONATE HERE >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Reposted by Wilderness Watch
Speak up to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Speak up to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
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It’s GivingTuesday and all donations up to $20,000 will be DOUBLED by our generous members!
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s GivingTuesday and all donations up to $20,000 will be DOUBLED by our generous members!
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
The deceptively-named “Save Our Sequoias Act” has been introduced in Congress.
In reality, the bill would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias in designated Wilderness.
Write your rep today to Keep Wilderness Wild —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
In reality, the bill would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias in designated Wilderness.
Write your rep today to Keep Wilderness Wild —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
Wilderness is not a tree farm
Keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The deceptively-named “Save Our Sequoias Act” has been introduced in Congress.
In reality, the bill would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias in designated Wilderness.
Write your rep today to Keep Wilderness Wild —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
In reality, the bill would do immense and unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias in designated Wilderness.
Write your rep today to Keep Wilderness Wild —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr2709/index...
Wilderness Watch is the only organization in the country whose SOLE FOCUS is the preservation of America's National Wilderness Preservation System.
Please consider a special GivingTuesday donation to help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Please consider a special GivingTuesday donation to help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Support Wilderness on GivingTuesday
Give to Wilderness Watch during GivingTuesday and your donation will be DOUBLED!
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Wilderness Watch is the only organization in the country whose SOLE FOCUS is the preservation of America's National Wilderness Preservation System.
Please consider a special GivingTuesday donation to help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
Please consider a special GivingTuesday donation to help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-giving-...
It’s GivingTuesday and all donations up to $20,000 will be DOUBLED by our generous members!
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s GivingTuesday and all donations up to $20,000 will be DOUBLED by our generous members!
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
Individuals like YOU provide more than 90% of our funding, so please be as generous as you can!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT for Wilderness and its wildlife below.
>>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/2025-givingt...
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ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
ACTION NEEDED!
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Reposted by Wilderness Watch
The United States is blessed with a 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System that is beautiful in all seasons.
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The United States is blessed with a 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System that is beautiful in all seasons.
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
Our sole focus is Keeping Wilderness Wild!
📸 Kyle Alcorn
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Speak up for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem!
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Speak up for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem!
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
Urge your members of Congress to oppose the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
🐻 —> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose-grizz...
Reposted by Wilderness Watch
Wilderness Watch is the leading national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship of lands and rivers included in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
We're very grateful for our members and supporters who help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
We're very grateful for our members and supporters who help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wilderness Watch is the leading national organization whose sole focus is the preservation and proper stewardship of lands and rivers included in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
We're very grateful for our members and supporters who help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
We're very grateful for our members and supporters who help us Keep Wilderness Wild!
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“These forests are ecosystems, not museums. The regeneration at Redwood Mountain Grove inside Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness is proof that the rationale behind the Save Our Sequoias Act is dangerously misguided." – Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/11/save...
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/11/save...
Save Our Sequoias Act Is “Unnecessary,” Says Group
Natural recovery of giant sequoia forests in Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite national parks negates the need for the “Save Our Sequoias Act,” according to one advocacy group.
www.nationalparkstraveler.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“These forests are ecosystems, not museums. The regeneration at Redwood Mountain Grove inside Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness is proof that the rationale behind the Save Our Sequoias Act is dangerously misguided." – Mason Parker, Wilderness Watch
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/11/save...
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/11/save...
Speak up to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Speak up to keep EVEN MORE livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”
Call script and more details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/speak-up-t...