Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.| www.wilderness.org
On Wednesday evening, the Trump administration unveiled emergency permitting procedures to fast-track oil, gas and mining projects on federal public lands – sharply curtailing public participation and environmental review.| The Wilderness Society
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 15, 2025)—According to New York Times and Washington Post reporting, the Trump administration has rescinded the proclamations that established two national monuments totaling nearly a million acres in California: Chuckwalla National Monument, near Joshua Tree National Park, and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, just northeast of Mount Shasta. | The Wilderness Society
The White House posted a pair of rescission notices signaling the administration’s intent to begin rolling back two key Biden administration conservation rules: the BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule (or Public Lands Rule) and the Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Regulations.| The Wilderness Society
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at boosting the mining and processing of minerals, including rushing the approval of mining applications, reducing opportunities for public input and directing the Department of the Interior to produce a list of public lands where mining should be prioritized as a “primary” use.| The Wilderness Society
A new map and data from The Wilderness Society illustrate the potential reach of executive and secretarial orders issued to fulfill President Trump’s fossil fuel-centric “energy dominance” vision.| The Wilderness Society
A budget reconciliation bill was passed by the House with provisions that force reckless oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on other public lands and dramatically expand mining and logging.| The Wilderness Society
In the first few weeks, the Trump Administration has wasted no time advancing a dangerous fossil fuel agenda that prioritizes oil and gas profits over the health and wellbeing of communities and public lands. These actions ignore the realities of the climate crisis, and the needs of the communities most impacted. They won’t lower energy prices for consumers and they also disregard and target the two fastest growing energy sources in the United States: wind and solar. | The Wilderness Society
A Department of Justice opinion quietly tries to rewrite history and dismantle the country’s most important conservation laws| The Wilderness Society
The 119th Congress has set the stage for an anti-environment agenda with a House rules package that makes it easier for the government to sell off public lands.| The Wilderness Society
An analysis by The Wilderness Society shows how rollback of national monuments and other land protections could jeopardize imperiled wildlife habitat.| The Wilderness Society
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.| The Wilderness Society
