The Wilderness Society

06/12/2026

We need intact, funded and staffed public land agencies. They are essential to ensuring public lands are managed to protect clean water, healthy wildlife habitat, wildfire resilience and the freedom for people to enjoy these places now and for future generations.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4eb33QX

The Trump administration cut 1,753 land management jobs in Colorado last year, or 26% of the jobs managing 24 million public acres.

06/11/2026

Bad news: A new bill introduced by Senator John Barrasso (WY) and backed by Senator Mike Lee (UT) would strike down protections for 45 million acres of national forests by nullifying the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

S. 140 masquerades as a solution to the wildfire crisis, but would make matters worse by overthinning naturally resilient forests and increasing the risk of human ignitions when wildland firefighting forces are already stretched thin by the Administration’s reckless cuts.

Roadless forests help protect clean water, wildlife habitat and the freedom to hike, hunt, fish, camp and experience some of the wildest public lands we have left. Gutting these protections would put those values at risk for all of us, and for the next generation.

Tell your Senators to vote NO on S. 140: https://bit.ly/4geri3h

06/11/2026

Utah’s members of Congress are trying to advance legislation that would erode protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — a place of incredibly diverse wildlife, rich cultural heritage, fragile water resources and unmatched outdoor recreational opportunities.

Let's not rob future generations of the freedom to experience this magnificent place as it is today.

Take action today: https://bit.ly/4bGpHR6

Utah's Senator Mike Lee and Representative Celeste Maloy have introduced legislation to disrupt the monument's management. Send a message to Congress now!

06/11/2026

We are back with another public lands x birth month post!

What public land are you visiting next?

06/09/2026

Another corporate handout paid for by us, the public.

The administration wants to cut what oil and gas corporations pay to extract from public lands, putting corporate profits over people and undermining the future of the places we rely on.

But public lands belong to all of us. They offer us the freedom to explore while also providing clean air and water.

There is simply far too much to lose: Join us in telling the administration that public lands are NOT for sale: https://bit.ly/4eicVbX

06/08/2026

The Antiquities Act turns 120 today, and it’s still helping protect the places we love 🌄

For more than a century, this law has provided people with the freedom to enjoy some of America’s most treasured landscapes. It has preserved outdoor access for local communities, petroglyphs and cliff dwellings, forested watersheds that provide clean drinking water, fossil beds teeming with ancient life, migratory corridors for wildlife and landscapes that help buffer the impacts of climate change.

Some of these places have been cared for and protected by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial.

The law is as vital as ever—today and for the future generations who will inherit these special places.

👉 Click to learn more and take action for our national monuments.
https://bit.ly/4oj6utF

06/06/2026

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Today we celebrate the trails that give us freedom to explore and the people who help protect and maintain them. Across public lands, communities are coming together to hike, connect and give back so these places stay open for future generations.

Tag the person (or people) you want to hit the trail with 💙💚

06/06/2026

Breaking 🚨 The USDA is expected to release a memo that could open the door for development on 5.18 million acres of “recommended wilderness,” threatening clean drinking water, wildlife corridors and the future of these landscapes.

Public lands offer us the freedom to roam, hike, camp, explore and connect. Once our wildest places are lost, we won’t get them back.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4uPEUqf

06/05/2026

Today, even major oil companies are recognizing what this administration hasn’t: the Arctic Refuge is far more valuable as a thriving wildlife habitat and cultural homeland than as an industrial oil field.

While only one small Alaska-based gas company and an Alaska economic development corporation entered bids for 72,049 acres, once again no major companies showed interest in leasing tracts on the Porcupine Caribou Herd’s sacred calving grounds.

Today's lease sale was the latest move in the administration’s effort to sell out our public lands to industrial development. They are expanding a leasing program that’s repeatedly fallen flat and putting one of America’s wildest, most treasured landscapes at risk.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4oaZte8