Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view from Black Elk Peak, within the Black Elk Wilderness in the Black Hills of South Dakota. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota ...

It’s unfortunate that two UCLA biologists recently questioned the value of the 1964 Wilderness Act in a May 7 Desert Sun opinion essay titled, “Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?”The ...

Editor's Note: This article is the first in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal wilderness areas in Arkansas. The series will ...

On September 3, 1964, humanity’s unrelenting quest to tame, civilize, industrialize, and obliterate wild nature crashed into the Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson on that momentous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike O’Neal, a longtime hunter, surveys an expanse of the Bridgestone Firestone Centennial Wilderness Area. (Photo: John Partipilo ...

This article on the Poteau Mountain Wilderness Area is the 11th in a series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of federal legislation to create nine new federal wilderness areas in ...

Passage of the Wilderness Act was anything but a foregone conclusion. First introduced in Congress in 1956, the “often-sidetracked Wilderness Bill,” as New York Times writer William M. Blair called it ...

This is the first installment in a series of stories on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act that will publish this month. The series will continue next Sunday. CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS – A ...

I was rushing up a trail in the Gila National Forest to see a wooden sign. Henry Provencio had to get back to his Forest Service office for a meeting, but he knew how much I wanted to see it, so we ...

It’s unfortunate that the two UCLA biologists who blasted the 1964 Wilderness Act in an opinion essay titled, Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?, didn’t also research the background and ...

CU Boulder’s Paul S. Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee Passage of the Wilderness Act was anything but a foregone conclusion. First introduced ...