King Cove, Alaska. Photo Center for American Progress Recently Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland visited the isolated Aleut community of King Cove on the Alaskan Peninsula southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, […]
Montana’s Bitterroot Front Project More FS Snake Oil
The Bitterroot Mountains rise up above the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. Photo George Wuerthner Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest is proposing the Bitterroot Front Project (BFP), encompassing 144,000 acres. This […]
Wild Rogue Wilderness Legislation Introduced
The Rogue River cuts through the coastal Siskiyou Mountains. Photo George Wuerthner Congressman Peter DeFazio (D) from Eugene, Oregon, has introduced into the House the Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation […]
Escudilla Revisited, Aldo Leopold-Restoring the Grizzly to the Southwest
Escudilla Mountain rises above the landscape and dominates the views in northern Arizona. Photo George Wuerthner “Life in Arizona was bounded underfoot by grama grass, overhead by the sky, and […]
Mosquitoes And Wildfires–How To Live With Both
Learning to live with mosquitoes sometimes requires working from the body outward. Photo George Wuerthner Our approach to mosquitoes and wildfires has much in common. Both are typically maligned, […]
A Proposal To Create A Civilization Area System
Our current means of protecting wildlands is to set a boundary around the area. Humans do not create wilderness with survey lines. Any more than we create blue skies […]
A Maine Woods National Park?
I helped to create RESTORE the North Woods in 1991 which put forth a proposal for a 3.2 million acre national park in the Maine Woods. I’ve been a board […]