By Brett Haverstick Taking a long trip into the backcountry during winter doesn’t appeal to some people. That’s understandable. But I enjoy it, and it’s something I try to do a few times a ...
Can We Still Keep Wilderness Wild? by Louise Lasley Most of us probably believe we can correctly figure out fact from fiction, good from bad, and many other distinctions we make every day. But so...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/can-we-still-keep-wilderness-wild/
Paddling would mar wild landscapes By Franz Camenzind For the second time in as many years, a bill that would open certain waterways within Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks to “hand-p...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/paddling-would-mar-wild-landscapes/
A Winter Visit to Cumberland Island Wilderness by Jerome Walker In February, the weather is usually perfect on Georgia’s coastal islands. That’s one of the reasons why America’s wealthi...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/a-winter-visit-to-cumberland-island-wilderness/
So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Wilderness By Howie Wolke This is the slightly amended written document that I worked from while giving my talk at the 50th Anniversary Wilderness Conference ...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/so-called-conservation-groups-betray-wilderness/
Wilderness: The Next 50 Years? By: Martin Nie and Christopher Barns September 3, 2014 commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964. No other environmental law, save perhaps...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/wilderness-the-next-50-years/
Wilderness in the Eternity of the Future By Ed Zahniser *Editor’s note: The following is reprinted from a speech Ed Zahniser gave this past May in Schenectady, NY. My father Howard Zahniser, wh...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/wilderness-in-the-eternity-of-the-future/
“The Wilderness Bill preserves for our posterity, for all time to come, 9 million acres of this vast continent in their original and unchanging beauty and wonder.” — President Lyndon B. Joh...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/happy-50th-anniversary-wilderness-act/
Wilderness More Important than Ever by Kevin Proescholdt and Howie Wolke Christopher Solomon got it wrong in so many ways in his July 6 New York Times editorial, “Rethinking the Wild: The Wilde...
https://wildernesswatch.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/wilderness-more-important-than-ever/
“The Peaceable Kingdom of Wilderness,” by internationally-acclaimed artist Monte Dolack, commemorates the Wilderness Act’s 50th anniversary and celebrates our 110 million-acre National Wild...