Entries by Margosia Jadkowski

2024 by the numbers: Celebrating a year of wilderness wins

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re celebrating another year of successful projects protecting the wilderness you love across the country. This year we protected 42 properties totaling 2,073 acres from Alaska to Virginia. With the threat of development removed, they will remain open for wildlife to roam, resilient habitats to thrive, and people from […]

Celebrating 94 acres protected in Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness

The Payette Land Trust and Wilderness Land Trust recently partnered to protect a 94-acre private inholding within Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. At 2.3 million acres, the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness is the largest wilderness area in the lower 48 states and is home to over 180 miles of the free-flowing […]

Giving thanks this holiday season

November 27, 2024- As our staff steps away from the office this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends, we’re taking a moment to reflect on all that we have to give thanks for. We are so grateful for the fulfillment of mission-driven work, the community that makes it all possible, and the wild […]

Celebrating a year of conservation success in our 2023-2024 Annual Report

November 1, 2024- Every fall, after our fiscal year has come to a close, we report back to you, our partners and supporters, in our Annual Report on what we have accomplished together in the previous year. This year we had lots to celebrate as we acquired lands in and around wilderness across the country […]

Exploring the wilderness you love through maps

October 18, 2024- In July we shared with you about our work to create a first of its kind GIS-based national inventory of private properties in and around wilderness. This tool has already been valuable in our work for how it allows us to explore the wild places we work in in a different way. […]

Fossil Ridge Wilderness grows with Trust’s 5th Colorado transfer this year

October 4, 2024- This week the Trust completed the transfer of our 183-acre Cross Mountain project in Colorado’s Fossil Ridge Wilderness to public ownership. The transfer comes on the heels of two other successful projects in Gunnison National Forest this year: the 10-acre Straeder Lode just outside the Raggeds Wilderness, and 10-acre Copper Glance Lode in […]

Fall 2024 Wilderness Book Club Pick

Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy This fall’s Wilderness Book Club pick is Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy. Connection to place is an important cornerstone in wilderness conservation. But for many, our personal and collective connection to place is complicated by our histories. Sand […]