wilderness

Challenging unlawful aircraft landing areas in Idaho’s Frank-Church-River of No Return Wilderness
June 21, 2023

Challenging unlawful aircraft landing areas in Idaho’s Frank-Church-River of No Return Wilderness

Advocates for the West filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service challenging the agency’s unlawful decisions to improve and expand four locations in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness for aircraft landings and to permit hobby pilots to use these sites for motorized recreation. We’re representing Wilderness Watch, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Friends of […]

5-25-2022 Voices for the West –  The Gila and Beyond: Wilderness Designation at 100 Years
May 26, 2022

5-25-2022 Voices for the West – The Gila and Beyond: Wilderness Designation at 100 Years

We’re joined by Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Editor of the anthology “First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100,” Madeleine Carey, WildEarth Guardians’ Southwest Conservation Manager, and Advocates for the West Senior Attorney Todd Tucci to discuss America’s first—and the world’s first—designated wilderness, the Greater Gila bioregion, and large landscape protections elsewhere in the West. View the full presentation here.