This beautiful Monte Dolack painting is an excellent reminder that America's National Wilderness Preservation System is home to a diverse array of wildlife, plants, and ecosystems. We commissioned Dolack to paint this for the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act back in 2014.

Before you head "into the wild" on your next Wilderness adventure.... TAKE ACTION to defend America's National Wilderness Preservation System! Visit our Action Center today >>> wildernesswatch.org/action-a… 📷 Leon Werdinger

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. Learn more >>> atowi.org/

A big THANK YOU to thousands of our members and supporters who raised your voice over the past month to oppose land exchanges on Cumberland Island National Seashore that would benefit private interests far more than the public or wildlife.

Looking for something to do?! You really 🦦 otter 🦦 head over to our action center to see what you can do to defend Wilderness and wildlife that call America's National Wilderness Preservation System home! >>> wildernesswatch.org/action-a…

Wilderness rocks! 📷 Gaylord Nelson Wilderness at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin by NPS

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope." – Lady Bird Johnson 📷 USFWS

“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 Learn more >>> wildernesswatch.org/stewards…

Raise your voice for endangered lobos! Urge Congress to keep Mexican gray wolves protected under the Endangered Species Act. wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…

We have a vision for a world where wildness is the defining characteristic of Wilderness and there are ample places of wildness and solitude untrammeled by human beings. 📷 St. Marks Wilderness, Florida by Allen Pecorino

Keep Wilderness Wild! Keep Wilderness Wild! Keep Wilderness Wild! Keep Wilderness Wild! Keep Wilderness Wild! 📷 Daniel J. Evans Wilderness by Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch

In one of our "Wilderness Experienced" essays, Matt Levin writes about returning to the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, along the coastal strip of Olympic National Park, following a three decade absence. Read it here: wildernesswatch.org/jets-and…

Whooooooo is looking to do something to protect Wilderness and wildlife? Visit our action center to make a difference today! 📷—> wildernesswatch.org/action-a…

Here’s an important piece, written in 2022, sharing the unique voices of Cu’pik and Gwich’in people on Wilderness and their relationship to the land, and consideration of Wilderness from an historical lens as well. >>> wildernesswatch.org/images/w…

Wilderness is the way!

On October 21, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the 1978 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act, Public Law 95-495, into law! Our conservation director, Kevin Proescholdt, was a key figure in the passage of the 1978 Act...Thank you, Kevin! More >>> wildernesswatch.substack.com…

Few things sound more "wilderness" than the eerie bugle of a rutting bull elk during a crisp fall morning.

"The wilderness idea means protecting the intrinsic value of Wilderness and all of the life it safeguards, regardless of utility to humans or profit capacity." wildernesswatch.org/conflati…

Senator Mike Lee's so-called “Border Lands Conservation Act” (S. 2967) could allow DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across the ENTIRE National Wilderness Preservation System in the United States! ACT NOW >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.or…