Wilderness Campaign News

House passes bill to protect Oregon’s Molalla River

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:08 +0000

With bipartisan support from Oregon’s delegation, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved Oregon’s Molalla River Wild and Scenic bill, which would provide 21 miles of the river with the highest level of federal protection under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

A promising trend - science and policy are reunited

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:51 +0000

This year is shaping up to be a banner year for environmental policy. The Obama administration is making decisions based on sound science and reason, peeling away actions and policies created in the past administration that significantly weakened environmental protections. The administration is establishing a new hope for our forests and wildlife.

Wilderness bill would protect Big Sur rivers, lands

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:47:36 +0000

Author Henry Miller once said “Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago… this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.” New legislation introduced last week could help protect this iconic California coastal landscape. The Wilderness Society and our partners, including the Ventana Wilderness Alliance, celebrated the introduction of the measure aimed to protect some of Big Sur’s irreplaceable natural treasures.

From the Wild9 Congress comes hope

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:43:04 +0000

My experience at the 9th World Wilderness Congress started with a red-eye flight that got me to Merida, Mexico just in time to hear Dr.