The conservation group The Wilderness Society has changed its position and now supports a bill that would create five new Alaska Native corporations in Southeast Alaska. It historically opposed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emigrant Peak Trail in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest (Photo by Jacob W. Frank of the National Park Service). In the 1930s, ...

The drive from Seattle into the Cascade mountains quickly plunges into dense, green tunnels of evergreen forest — and just as rapidly, reveals patches where the forest has been cleared. Nestled among ...

On the northern edge of Idaho’s Snake River Plain, one of the most developed landscapes in the state, lies an area that in contrast remains as it has been for thousands of years, a wilderness area ...

Somewhere, the industry lobbyists who successfully introduced “collaboration” to the arena of conservation policies and politics are toasting their success at splitting the conservation community. The ...

I am writing to clarify a statement regarding policy positions of The Wilderness Society in the debate over fire and fuels legislation (HCN, 7/7/03: As fires rage, governors counsel discretion). I ...

High Country evenings are chilly, providing the perfect time to settle into your favorite armchair with a good book. For lovers of wilderness who want to understand more about the history, development ...

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This is the first installment in a series of stories on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act that will publish this month. The series will continue next Sunday. CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS – A ...

On September 3, 1964, humanity’s unrelenting quest to tame, civilize, industrialize, and obliterate wild nature crashed into the Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson on that momentous ...