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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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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Here is how we can improve the Roadless Rule. While the following ideas may be controversial, even among some conservationists, protective measures like these are within the purview of administrative action and could greatly strengthen the Roadless Rule." www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/25/r...
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Roadless Areas are Great, But We Can Protect Them Better
In the coming days many in the environmental community will remind us why our roadless areas are great. And they are. While the National Wilderness
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Here is how we can improve the Roadless Rule. While the following ideas may be controversial, even among some conservationists, protective measures like these are within the purview of administrative action and could greatly strengthen the Roadless Rule." missoulacurrent.com/wilderness-a...
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Viewpoint: Roadless areas are great; we can better protect them
Katie Bilodeau and Gary Macfarlane write, Even the status quo loses our roadless wildlands inventory with degradation by a thousand cuts. Demand a better alternative that closes the industrial logging...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the time of the year when monarch butterflies in the northern parts of the United States start migrating south. America's National Wilderness Preservation System provides important wild habitat for these imperiled insects. 📸 Tom Koerner/USFWS
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Honestly, we're not sure if this is sunrise or sunset. But either way, it's a beautiful photo of the Big Island Lake Wilderness in Michigan! 📸 Jim Gries/USFS
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We love this quote from Rich Holschuh of the Atowi Project. Atowi is an Elnu Abenaki community initiative to affirm Native relationships to the Land, raise Indigenous voices, and foster inclusion with understanding. >> www.atowi.org
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One often overlooked and very important benefit is that roadless areas are critical to the preservation of wilderness character, including the “qualities” and “values” in wilderness. dailymontanan.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Why roadless areas matter for wilderness preservation • Daily Montanan
Roadless rules are there to protect wilderness areas and to keep them truly wild, for animals and humans, says columnist Suzanne Cable.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One often overlooked and very important benefit is that roadless areas are critical to the preservation of wilderness character, including the “qualities” and “values” in wilderness. dailymontanan.com/2026/09/23/w...
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Why roadless areas matter for wilderness preservation • Daily Montanan
Roadless rules are there to protect wilderness areas and to keep them truly wild, for animals and humans, says columnist Suzanne Cable.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Help end livestock damage to Wilderness! Urge your Rep to co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (HR 5785). wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
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Urge Congress to pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act
Raise your voice to protect Wilderness, watersheds, and native wildlife.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, is the smallest subspecies of gray wolf and also one of the most endangered carnivores in the world. Lobos are also an integral part of Wilderness and the ecology of the American Southwest. Speak up for the lobo! >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/hr4255/index...
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Raise your voice for endangered lobos
Congress is attempting to silence the call of the lobo across the American Southwest.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Roadless areas provide a de facto buffer to protect Wilderness from the impacts of industrial forest management and other resource extraction occurring on nearby National Forest System lands." More >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/why-roadle...
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Why roadless areas matter for Wilderness preservation
By Suzanne Cable, Wilderness Watch board member
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy fall, y'all! 📸 Leon Werdinger
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our latest newsletter is hot off the press! See how we're defending Wilderness and its wildlife in Congress, the courts, and on the ground with your help. >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wilderness Watch is America’s leading organization dedicated to defending the nation’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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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized." Wilderness Watch's Katie Bilodeau has the full scoop! wildernesswatch.org/you-defended...
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You defended the Washakie Wilderness! - Wilderness Watch
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let us be abundantly clear: Seeking redress through the courts and speaking up for the wild are lawful and constitutionally protected activities, and civil liberties are essential to functioning democracies. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/we-wont-st...
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We won't stop defending Wilderness
Our voices and actions are needed now more than ever. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In many Wilderness areas across the United States, the moose rut usually peaks at the end of September.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Roadless areas are critical to the preservation of wilderness character, including the “qualities” and “values” in Wilderness. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/why-roadle...
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Why roadless areas matter for Wilderness preservation
By Suzanne Cable, Wilderness Watch board member
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The dream of a fully and permanently protected Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, begun over a century ago...remains within our grasp. Let’s work to make that dream a reality." – Kevin Proescholdt, Wilderness Watch www.startribune.com/walz-bwca-mi...
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Opinion | A century later, there’s more to protect the Boundary Waters from than mining
From addressing motorboat traffic to visitation levels and motorized portages, there is more we can do to fulfill the dream of fully protected BWCA, Kevin Proescholdt writes.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some good news for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and its watershed! The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has canceled a mineral lease that was held by the mining company Twin Metals. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Minnesota DNR ends Twin Metals lease for land near Boundary Waters
James Coleman, a University of Minnesota professor with expertise in energy law, explains the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources decision to cancel a Twin Metals mineral lease for a site locate...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
National forest roadless areas provide secure habitat for native wildlife, protect clean water, and ecause many roadless areas abut designated Wildernesses, they also protect and enhance the value of those Wilderness areas. Take action by October 6 >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/strengthen-r...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"BLM is trying to rig the rules so it can turn a blind eye to profiteers looting Wilderness and disregard its legal mandates to protect areas, vegetation, and wildlife on all of our public lands.” – Katie Bilodeau wildernesswatch.org/blm-is-tryin...
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BLM is trying to rig the rules and turning a blind eye to profiteers looting Wilderness - Wilderness Watch
The Bureau of Land Management received more than 105,000 public comments on its proposed overhaul of federal grazing regulations governing approximately 155 million acres of public land during spring ...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here's a double dose of Zahniser for Wilderness Wednesday! “The purpose of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the wilderness character of the areas to be included in the wilderness system, not to establish any particular use.” — Howard Zahniser, Wilderness Act author
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please call your two senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to oppose the "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103). johnmuirproject.substack.com/p/a-shadowy-...
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A Shadowy “Coalition” is Destroying Giant Sequoia Groves on Public Lands
Chad Hanson, Ph.D., Wildfire Scientist
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Senate Committee is holding a hearing on the deceptively-named "Save Our Sequoias Act" on Sept 16 at 10am ET. The "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103) would do unnecessary damage to the wild groves of giant sequoias, including in Wilderness. Details: wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/s4103/index....
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How it started. >>> wildernesswatch.org/if-a-tree-fa...
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If a tree falls in the Wilderness, will we hear (about) it? - Wilderness Watch
The U.S. Forest Service has approved a tree-cutting project in the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming behind closed doors. Does it promote a wilderness ethic? Certainly not. Will it violate the Wilderness...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our newsletter has important updates on how we’re holding federal land management agencies and Congress accountable to the Wilderness Act in preservation of America’s National Wilderness Preservation System and its wildlife. Read it here >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unfortunately, even the 2001 Roadless Rule is not nearly protective enough. It contains numerous loopholes that allow some road-building, logging, and other industrial development under certain circumstances. Speak up by October 6 for a stronger rule >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/strengthen...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"This is part of a broader, far more troubling pattern: using congressional investigations to intimidate civil-society organizations that participate—openly and legally—in public policymaking. Neither party can afford to let this tactic become normalized.” www.republic.land/the-committe...
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The Committee That Won't Stop Investigating
The House Natural Resources Committee keeps finding new reasons to investigate the same environmental organizations — without ever finishing an investigation.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The overarching legal mandate of the Wilderness Act is to preserve the Wilderness character of each area in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Preserving Wilderness character is the essential key to keeping alive the very meaning of wilderness in America.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized. wildernesswatch.org/you-defended...
wildernesswatch.org
You defended the Washakie Wilderness! - Wilderness Watch
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's the time of the year when the eerie bugle of bull elk pierces the silence of many Wilderness areas across the United States.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Because many roadless areas abut designated Wildernesses, they also protect and enhance the value of those Wildernesses by keeping road-building and other industrial development farther away from Wilderness. wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/strengthen-r...
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Strengthen—don't repeal—the Roadless Rule
Speak up by October 6 to protect national forest roadless areas.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Keep Wilderness and giant sequoias wild! Urge your senators to oppose the so-called "Save Our Sequoias Act" (S. 4103)! Full details >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/s4103/index....
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wilderness is the way! “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” ― Andy Warhol
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Concerns about the tree removal emanated from Wilderness Watch, a Missoula, Montana-based advocacy group that seeks to preserve and steward lands and rivers in the National Wilderness Preservation System." wyofile.com/wilderness-a...
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Wilderness advocates delay removal of tree ‘Yellowstone Forest Reserve’ surveyors inscribed in 1893 - WyoFile
The Shoshone National Forest may still authorize a helicopter to extricate a section of the tree, but other options — like a 3D replica — are being considered after advocates objected to altering desi...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The summer/fall issue of our newsletter, the Wilderness Watcher, is hot off the press! Read it here >>> wildernesswatch.org/wp-content/u...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Help end livestock damage to Wilderness! Urge your Rep to co-sponsor and pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act (H.R. 5785). wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/vgpra-hr5785...
wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org
Urge Congress to pass the Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act
Raise your voice to protect Wilderness, watersheds, and native wildlife.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This webinar about “Chainsaws and the Wilderness Act” was recorded on June 11, 2026. It was co-hosted by Wilderness Watch and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. >>> wildernesswatch.org/chainsaws-in...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You" — Dr. Seuss
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Th proposed Sheep Creek mine threatens the Allen Mountain Inventoried Roadless Area, the Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area, the River of No Return Wilderness, and an important grizzly bear recovery corridor. Speak up by September 13! Details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/sheep-cree...
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Sheep Creek mine threatens wildlands, clean water, and grizzly recovery
Mine proposal threatens Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area, River of No Return Wilderness, and grizzly bear recovery corridor
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized. wildernesswatch.org/you-defended...
wildernesswatch.org
You defended the Washakie Wilderness! - Wilderness Watch
In an impressive third act, written entirely by the public, you stopped the logging and removal of the survey tree in the Washakie Wilderness—and you saved more than we realized.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Wilderness Act was signed into law on September 3, 1964. Today, our nation's National Wilderness Preservation System covers 112 million acres of Wilderness in 44 states and Puerto Rico—protecting 150 distinct ecosystems across the United States.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The fight to keep the Izembek Wilderness wild continues! Clean Water Act permit suspended for Izembek Wilderness road construction! Full details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/clean-wate...
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Clean Water Act permit suspended for Izembek Wilderness road construction
The fight to keep the Izembek Wilderness wild continues
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“At least 50% of all Bureau-administered Wilderness acres are grazed by livestock. If enacted, these regulations would expand grazing at great cost to wilderness character and hide the consequences from the public." - Katie Bilodeau, Wilderness Watch wildernesswatch.org/blm-is-tryin...
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BLM is trying to rig the rules and turning a blind eye to profiteers looting Wilderness - Wilderness Watch
The Bureau of Land Management received more than 105,000 public comments on its proposed overhaul of federal grazing regulations governing approximately 155 million acres of public land during spring ...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet Around me like circles on water. – Wendell Berry
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good news. The U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn a misguided project to torch all seven Wilderness areas on the Shawnee National Forest. Thanks to over 8,000 of our members and supporters who commented! wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/shawnee-burn...
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Good news for Wilderness
Forest Service withdraws project to torch 30,000 acres of Wilderness on the Shawnee National Forest.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry. Listen as he reads "The Peace of Wild Things." >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Heads up! Sheep Creek mine threatens wildlands, clean water, and grizzly recovery! Mine proposal threatens Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area, River of No Return Wilderness, and grizzly bear recovery corridor. Speak up by September 13! Details >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/sheep-cree...
wildernesswatch.substack.com
Sheep Creek mine threatens wildlands, clean water, and grizzly recovery
Mine proposal threatens Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area, River of No Return Wilderness, and grizzly bear recovery corridor
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICYMI >>> Earlier this year, Wilderness Watch and our allies filed a complaint against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to secure the critical habitat—including in Wilderness—that threatened wolverines deserve and desperately need to fend off extinction. wildernesswatch.org/threatened-w...
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Threatened wolverines need critical habitat designated - Wilderness Watch
No critter exemplifies our nation’s wilderness heritage more than the tenacious and beautiful wolverine. Wolverines are among the most wilderness-dependent mammals in the lower 48 states, persisting o...
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
America's 112 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System protects over 150 distinct ecosystem types across the United States. Our mission is to keep Wilderness wild!
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