by wilderness | Jun 30, 2014 | video, wilderness, Wilderness50
Shared from NPS Wilderness”They say that history is in the eye of the beholder, but what if the beholder is wilderness itself? What do our actions as a species look like to a member of the wilderness community? A personal history from the eyes of the saguaro...
by wilderness | Jun 13, 2014 | 2014 trips, backpacking, camping, hiking, history of wilderness, Idaho, Leave No Trace, Montana, restoration, wilderness
There are still spaces remaining on WV service projects in several outstanding wild places. Here are a few of the places that have spots available to give something back:Mission Mountains Wilderness, Montana, July 19 – 26Photo by Tammy Rinaldi, WV Service...
by wilderness | Jun 5, 2014 | history of wilderness, let's celebrate wilderness, The Wilderness Society, wilderness, Wilderness50
Hiking in the John Muir WildernessA new publication from The Wilderness Society celebrates the role of wilderness in shaping our national character, highlights the significance of wilderness in America and calls on Congress to protect more wild places.”Changes...
by wilderness | Mar 29, 2014 | let's celebrate wilderness, maps, roadless areas, United States, wilderness
The USGS Geographic Analysis and Monitoring program developed a national high resolution dataset that gives the distance to the nearest road every 30 meters (square) across the conterminous 48 states. These roadless areas are clustered mostly in the west around...
by wilderness | Feb 28, 2014 | let's celebrate wilderness, wilderness, Wilderness50
1. There are 757 wilderness areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System.2. The state with the most wilderness areas is California (149).3. These states have no federally designated wilderness: CT, DE, IA, KS, MD and RI4. While the Forest Service manages more...
