Here are some recent op-eds written by Wilderness Watch staff or board members about issues we're working on. For more information about the issues we are currently working on, click here. 

• Protecting Wilderness in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (Counterpunch, 3/7/2024)
• The Bureau of Land Management is ignoring its most serious land-health problem (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 9/8/2023)
• Wild, natural Wilderness requires restraint (Missoula Current, 8/29/2023. This also ran in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and Counterpunch.)
• The ‘Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act’ is still an imminent threat to wilderness (Park Record, 7/17/2023. This also ran in National Parks Traveler, Boulder Daily Camera, and Counterpunch)

• New Isle Royale wolves ironically diminish island’s wildness (Counterpunch, 7/14/2023)
• Why chainsaws in Wilderness matter (Spokesman-Review, 7/2/2023)
• The “Protect America’s Rock Climbing Act” is an imminent threat to Wilderness (Counterpunch, 6/16/2023)
• Mountains don't need hardware (This piece was distributed by Writers on the Range and appeared in over 40 news outlets throughout the American West. Click here for details. 6/12/2023.)
• Wilderness Needs Our Humility and Restraint, Not Our Poison (Salt Lake Tribune, 5/28/2023. This also ran in Counterpunch, The Wenatchee World, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Vail Daily, The Daily Sentinel, Montrose Press, Sierra Nevada Ally, The Times Independent, Park Record, and The Daily Yonder.)
• On trial: Forest Service's failure to control motorized towboats (Duluth News Tribune, 5/16/2023. This also ran in Counterpunch)

Below are some op-eds from previous years.

• Scrap the Buffalo Creek fish poisoning project (This also ran in the Montana Standard, the Missoulian and the Billings Gazette)
• Ending La Luz Run Safeguards Wilderness
• Forest Service shows blatant disregard for Wilderness (This also ran in the Missoulian 
• BLM motorized grazing permits cause harm (This also ran in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel and the Sopris Sun)
• A big win for the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and a call to protect wolves and Wilderness in Idaho
• Time for the Forest Service to curtail Idaho’s wolf slaughter in Wilderness (This also ran in the Missoula Current and on YubaNet.com)
• Recreation or wreckreation? (This also ran in the Laurel Outlook, Glendive Ranger Review, and Counterpunch)
• Grizzlies' arrival signals need to end baiting (This also ran in the Missoulian, Montana Standard, Bitterroot Star, Counterpunch, Clearwater Tribune, and Deomcratic Underground, and an expanded piece ran in Mountain Journal)
• Protecting the North Cascades: Looking for an alternative that is good for grizzlies and good for Wilderness
• Wilderness represents a commitment to humility
• Here’s the problem with monitoring Mount Hood
• Buyer beware: Hovercraft ruling deals a major blow to land conservation in Alaska
• What’s wrong with monitoring volcanoes in wilderness? (This also ran in Counterpunch and The News International)
• Why wilderness? Because it’s irreplaceable
• Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke attacks America’s wilderness (This also ran in the MT Standard, Juneau Empire, and Counterpunch.) 
• Keep mountain bikes out of the wilderness (This also ran in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Montana Standard, Sierra Sun Times, Helena Independent Record, Albuquerque Journal, The Missoulian, Idaho Mountain Express, The Fresno Bee, Last Best News, and Counterpunch.)
• Mountain biking threat to wilderness (This also ran in the Idaho State Journal, The Register Guard, and the Wildlife News.)
• Rep. Gianforte, GOP vote to gut the Wilderness Act (This also ran in the Montana Standard, Helena Independent Record, Missoula Independent, and Billings Gazette.)
• There was no secret deal for mining near Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (This also ran in the St. Cloud Times.)
• Izembek Wilderness Threatened by Road
• Border fantasy legislation threatens wildlands
• Wilderness or game farm? (Note: WW has filed a formal objection, not a lawsuit at the time this op-ed published—3/12/18)
• Isle Royale: Manage for Wilderness Not Wolves