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October 30, 2026- In August of this year, a forty-five day public comment period opened on the draft environmental impact statement for the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Over 1 million people participated in the comment period, generating over 390,000 submissions and 81,000 unique comments. We can learn […]
October 2, 2026- Earlier this summer, while scanning documents as part of an effort to digitize many filing cabinets full of old project files (heroically undertaken by Tasha, our Senior Operations Manager), I got to thinking about how much of our work, once recorded, announced, and celebrated, has been all but lost to memory. When […]
September 18, 2026- The Wilderness Land Trust recently purchased a 41-acre private inholding within the Sespe Wilderness of Southern California. The property sits just up the slope from the popular Agua Blanca Creek Trail, and contains a tributary to Sespe Creek, one of the last free-flowing rivers in Southern California. With it now safeguarded from development, […]
September 4, 2026- The Wilderness Land Trust has been partnering with Pitkin County, Colorado on a landmark conservation project to protect the 650-acre Snowmass Falls Ranch. The property, which is the largest private inholding in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, has been on the Trust’s radar as a priority acquisition for three decades. In February 2024, […]
August 21, 2026- This week, the Trump Administration released a new proposed rule and draft environmental impact statement that would fully rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The 2001 rule limited road building and commercial timber harvests on 45 million acres of National Forest. Some reporting on this has created confusion about which jurisdictions and […]
August 7, 2026- We are excited to announce that Maura Sullivan has joined the Trust staff as our new Director of Major Gifts. “I’m thrilled to welcome Maura Sullivan to The Wilderness Land Trust as our Director of Major Gifts. Maura brings with her more than two decades of conservation fundraising experience and a proven […]
July 27, 2026- Periodically, the Trust sends out letters to landowners of private inholdings within designated wilderness areas introducing ourselves and letting them know that if they are ever interested in selling, we’d love to work with them. This, along with partners bringing projects to us and landowners hearing about our work from neighbors or […]
July 10, 2026- Three years ago, The Wilderness Land Trust purchased a 160-acre parcel in California’s Ventana Wilderness from the San Francisco Zen Center. Previously part of their Tassajara Mountain Zen Center, the Church Creek property overlooks the ridges and valleys of the interior coastal range. Last week we completed the transfer of the property […]
May 29, 2026- There are so many reasons to love wilderness: from the adventures and moments of solitude it provides us, to the room it gives wildlife to roam, to the clean air and water we depend on. And, there are just as many ways to show your love for it! Wilderness touches all of […]
June 26, 2026- Right now, somewhere in the West, a wildfire is burning and fire managers are studying maps, calculating risk, and making decisions that will shape a landscape for the next century. When that fire burns near one of the 3,000 private properties that sit in the middle of designated wilderness, how those decisions […]
