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Results for keyword: Wilderness Areas

  • 'Road warriors' spread out over Utah

    A "Road Warrior" for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance tries to find and document roads claimed to exist in BLM wilderness study areas.

    by Cheryl Fox, May 11, 2011

  • Don’t send a check, send yourself

    Rob Pudim discovers the fun of wildlands restoration, a hands-on activity he highly recommends.

    by Rob Pudim, Feb 19, 2007

  • How to be alone with a lot of other people

    The writer sees a nature-bagger trend spreading through the West

    by Ed Quillen, Sep 04, 2006

  • Wilderness: The new anti-nuclear weapon

    The designation of a new wilderness area in Utah – the Cedar Mountain Wilderness -- may make it harder for nuclear power plant operators to ship radioactive waste to the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 06, 2006

  • Snowy middle ground

    Wilderness advocates and snowmobile enthusiasts are working together in Montana to find enough room in the landscape to accommodate both their passions

    by Ray Ring, Mar 06, 2006

  • Bears and bull trout may block mine

    A judge rules that constructing the Rock Creek Mine would jeopardize threatened populations of grizzly and bull trout in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of Montana

    by J.M. McCord, May 02, 2005

  • Border Patrol wants motorized access to wilderness

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to give the Border Patrol regular motorized access to more than 330,000 acres of wilderness along the Mexican border

    by Alex C. Pasquariello, Jun 21, 2004

  • Wilderness up for lease

    Citizen-proposed wilderness areas in the West are the latest battleground in the war over oil and gas drilling on the public lands

    by Zachary Smith, Jun 07, 2004

  • Proposed wilderness on the auction block

    A list of the wilderness inventory areas and citizens’ wilderness proposal areas being offered for oil and gas leasing by the BLM includes lands in New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah

    by Matt Jenkins, Jan 19, 2004

  • Two decades of hard work, plowed under

    The Bush administration opens up wild lands to oil and gas drilling, pulling the rug out from under two decades of citizen wilderness activism

    by Matt Jenkins, Jan 19, 2004
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