Tag: wilderness

  • Save America’s Forests and Wild Lands from Anti-Environmental Congress

    The log­ging, graz­ing, min­ing and oth­er extrac­tive indus­tries are mount­ing an intense attack on our nation’s pub­lic lands.  The Decem­ber 2014 lame duck ses­sion of Con­gress saw an ugly brew of anti-con­ser­va­tion ini­tia­tives remov­ing legal con­ser­va­tion pro­tec­tion from mil­lions of acres of pub­lic lands. But this was just the tip of the oncom­ing extrac­tive indus­tries iceberg.…

  • So-Called Conservation Groups Betray Environmental Movement

    - by Howie Wolke, Decem­ber 11, 2014, Wilder­ness Watch My name is Howie Wolke and I live in the foothills of the Gal­latin Range in south­ern Mon­tana just north of Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park, about a mile from the greater Absaro­ka-Beartooth Wilder­ness Com­plex. I’ve been a wilder­ness guide/outfitter for back­pack­ing and canoe trips since 1978. I am also…