Zinke pushes effort to open land near Boundary Waters Wilderness to mining

U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, who co-chairs the bipartisan Public Lands Caucus, was instrumental in passing a vote which overturned a ...
Yahoo

Idaho’s largest wilderness area just got a tiny bit bigger. Here’s how that happens

The largest contiguous wilderness area in the Lower 48 states just grew by 38 acres. A nonprofit that converts private land in wilderness areas for public use last week turned over a mining claim ...
The Gazette

51 acres of private Colorado inholdings secured by land trust in two popular wildernesses

The Montana-based Wilderness Land Trust announced Wednesday it recently acquired two private inholdings within Colorado wildernesses, expanding 51 acres for future public use. The two properties are ...
HeraldNet

Wild Sky Wilderness grows 345 acres, as transfer chips at private land

INDEX — The Wild Sky Wilderness just got a little bigger. Last week, 345 acres of land in the wilderness were transferred from private to public ownership through the Wilderness Land Trust, a ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Wilderness Land Trust acquires property just outside Mount Massive Wilderness

Mount Champion and Independence Pass, south of Aspen, is a popular destination for visitors and locals. Much of the mountain’s south and west faces have been privately owned, a news release from The ...
KSBW The Central Coast

Formerly private land in Ventana Wilderness to be made public

One-hundred-sixty acres of formerly private land in the Ventana Wilderness will now be protected.Earlier this week, the Wilderness Land Trust purchased the Church Creek property in the middle of the ...
The Herald SC

Trust buys SLO County land to ‘mend tears in the fabric’ of Los Padres National Forest

A view of land that The Wilderness Land acquired and then transferred to the United States Forest Service that is now part of the Los Padres National Forest around Trout Creek in San Luis Obispo ...
Alaska Public Media

Conservation groups add land to the Kootznoowoo Wilderness

Two brown bears on July 10, 2012 in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness on Admiralty Island in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo courtesy (Don MacDougall/U.S. Forest Service) The vast Tongass National Forest ...
Post Register

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness increases in size by nearly 100 acres

Central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness got a little bit bigger this fall thanks to a partnership between two land trust organizations. The Payette Land Trust and The Wilderness ...
The Gazette

Remote Colorado wilderness area grows as private land becomes public

At just shy of half a million acres, the Weminuche Wilderness in southwestern Colorado is the largest in the state, the most remote and now is slightly larger than it was yesterday. This past winter, ...
Idaho State Journal

Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness increases in size by nearly 100 acres

Central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness got a little bit bigger this fall thanks to a partnership between two land trust organizations. The Payette Land Trust and The Wilderness ...