A scenic view of Heart Lake in the Scapegoat Wilderness. The United States congress designated the Scapegoat Wilderness in 1972 with a total of 239,936 acres. The long northwest border of the ...

On Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Wilderness Act, creating the National Wilderness Preservation System that originally comprised 54 areas totaling 9.1 million acres in ...

It’s unfortunate that two UCLA biologists recently questioned the value of the 1964 Wilderness Act in a May 7 Desert Sun opinion essay titled, “Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?”The ...

PUBLIC LANDS — The editorial writers of the Missoulian offered this opinion: Montana should celebrate Wilderness Act anniversary with more wilderness Montanans enjoy access to 16 wilderness areas ...

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness area and the 35th anniversary of the Wilderness Act itself. The Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness is one of the original wilderness ...

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Wilderness Act. Nine million acres were allotted to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Often adjacent to national parks, ...

<p><span><strong>A horse party</strong> makes its way across Big River Meadows in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. (Chris Peterson/Hungry Horse News)</span></p><div><span ...

Few pieces of environmental legislation have had such far-reaching effects as the Wilderness Act, which observes its 40th anniversary today. The federal act designated 9.1 million acres as wilderness, ...

I grew up in New York City, which is probably why I care so much about wilderness. For city kids, wild country was a novelty, not the feared adversary it was on various American frontiers. I got into ...

A view from Black Elk Peak, within the Black Elk Wilderness in the Black Hills of South Dakota. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) The 1964 Wilderness Act celebrated its 60th anniversary Sept. 3.

At the end of 2023, four environmental groups sued the National Park Service and invoked the Wilderness Act to stop the replanting of trees following a catastrophic wildfire in Sequoia and Kings ...

“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, chief author ...