The Wilderness Workshop is the conservation watchdog of the White River National Forest and other nearby federal public lands. WW works to keep our backcountry more or less "as is" and, where possible, to restore fragmented wildlife habitat. We defend wilderness through a mix of advocacy, scientific study and education: - Campaigning for expanded wilderness. We're co-leading a campaign to add hundreds of thousands of acres of new designated wilderness on the White River National Forest and nearby BLM holdings.
- Fighting threats to ecologically sensitive public lands, including energy development, timber sales and irresponsible motorized recreation.
- Monitoring the health of wilderness – and quantifying the impacts to wilderness character – through air and water sampling, invasive weed inventorying, and monitoring human uses.
- Watchdogging the bureaucrats. Holding federal land managers to their own regulations by intervening in environmental review processes and, if necessary, suing.
- Educating and organizing the public and decision-makers about wild places, wildlife and the management decisions that affect them so to empower citizens and decision makers to effectively weigh in for wildlands protection.
To learn about the issues we're currently working on, please mouse over the links at left.
For an overview of our current work, please see our 2008 Annual Review.
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