The best approach to the preservation of Wilderness continues to be to leave it alone Contradictory to what is advocated for ...

A section from Ed Zahniser's 2004 lecture explores the impact of Thoreau and the wilderness on communities in the region.

If we accept John Muir’s conviction that “wildness is a necessity,” then the fate of the Point Reyes National Seashore’s ...

Howard Zahniser, the visionary conservationist who wrote the 1964 Wilderness Act, also wrote extensively about wilderness. In one of his well-known passages, written 11 years before the Wilderness Act ...

The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness was part of the original class of lands designated under the United States’ 1964 Wilderness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rafting down the Owyhee River in the Owyhee Canyonlands A wilderness designation is the right way to protect the Owyhee River ...

Inextricable from Minnesota’s identity are the boreal forests and abundant freshwater in our state. In particular, northeastern Minnesota hosts the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — our state’s ...

A Wyoming Girl Scout who learned to love the outdoors long before becoming a jurist has weighed in on such critical national questions as whether loggers should fell marbled murrelets’ nesting trees, ...

Wilderness Workshop hosted an event on Tuesday to celebrate 60 years of the Wilderness Act. The event, called A Wild Ride: Celebrating 60 Years of the Wilderness Act, was hosted at The Arts Campus At ...

The Wilderness Act of 1964 governs use and management of our four wilderness areas in Summit and Eagle counties — Eagles Nest, Ptarmigan Peak, Holy Cross and Flat Tops — and as well as the other 799 ...

The seeds for America's federally designated wilderness areas were sown by the actions of a man concerned about the ever-growing encroachment of civilization into the remaining wild areas of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In response to recent proposals for how to manage 250,000 acres in the Madison and Gallatin ...