Coyote Crossing

Ground-truthing The Wilderness Society

As background, here’s a longish quote from the Facebook page of our friends at Basin and Range Watch:

Not long ago, joining an environmental organization seemed like a rational thing to do if you had a busy schedule and didn’t have the time to be

The Problem With Wilderness

This is not a call to weaken wilderness protection in law or management policy, to remove any land from consideration for wilderness protection, or to criticize efforts to protect land as wilderness except as specified. This is a call for

California Desert Protection Act Maps

FURTHER UPDATED: Laurel Williams of the California Wilderness Coalition reminds me that many photos and descriptions of the land involved can be found at californiadesert.org.

UPDATED! Ryan has sent along maps for the National Park properties, and

Tell BLM to protect the Red Rock country

[As long as I’m pasting in activist alerts today, here’s an important one from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).]

Please tell BLM Director Bob Abbey to overturn the Bush administration’s anti-wilderness legacy!

One year ago it seemed

The empty barrel

Via greentangle:

The modern environmental movement is a messianic mission to save wild ground and at its heart — at spots like this unnamed canyon where we sit on a rock and eat while a cold front beats against Pusch Ridge — it always seems to me

Wilderness Bill 3 Votes Short: Call Now!

Cut-n-pasted from Larry Hogue’s post at DesertBlog:

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives missed the 2/3 majority needed to pass S. 22 by just 3 votes. This is the Omnibus Public Lands Bill that contains over 700,000 acres of new wilderness