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September 4, 2024- After the Trust acquires a private property in or around wilderness, we work with our agency partners to assess whether any restoration work is needed prior to transferring it to public ownership. Our goal is to restore the property to its wilderness character, improve habitat, and mitigate any public safety concerns on the […]
August 23, 2024- The Trust recently transferred a small property just outside Colorado’s Raggeds Wilderness to public ownership to be added to the National Forest.Straeder Lode is just over 10 acres of steep, rugged mountainside on the slopes above Baxter Basin. A popular hiking route from Crested Butte, Baxter Basin and Daisy Pass offer incredible […]
The Silver City Daily Press celebrate the Trust’s acquisition of 40 acres in the Gila Wilderness. August 17, 2024
The New Mexico Reporter celebrate the Trust’s acquisition of 40 acres in the Gila Wilderness. August 15, 2024
August 9, 2024- With this year marking the centennial of the Gila Wilderness, America’s first wilderness, we’re thrilled to share that last week the Trust completed our purchase of the 40-acre Spring Canyon inholding. As one of only five remaining inholdings left in the Gila, this acquisition brings us one step closer to completing the wilderness […]
July 26, 2024- Increasingly, summer in the West has become synonymous with wildfire season. As of this week, 89 large wildfires are active in the US and have burned 1,611,409 acres. But the impacts of those fires reach far beyond the communities directly affected by them, as smoke blankets much of the country, reaching through the Midwest […]
July 12, 2024- When we set out last year to begin creating a first of its kind GIS-based national inventory of private properties in and around wilderness, we knew we’d need help. We knew what the challenges of our current, largely analog system of inventorying wilderness inholdings are, we knew what we were hoping to […]
Bull Trout’s Gift by The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes With kids home from school for the summer, we wanted to feature a children’s book for our next Wilderness Book Club pick. Bull Trout’s Gift is a story about the gifts we receive from our rivers and the communities of life they support. It is […]
June 28, 2024- With snow melting out of the high country and summer officially upon us, field season is beginning for our lands staff. Over the next few months our team will be visiting project sites in wilderness areas across the country. Site visits are an integral part of our work: they allow us to do […]
June 14, 2024- The Wilderness Land Trust recently transferred our 22nd property in Colorado’s Holy Cross Wilderness to public ownership. Just down the ridgeline from Homestake Peak, the 10-acre Northern Lode property straddles the Continental Divide in an area once active with mines. It sits just above the the West Tennessee Lakes basin and is […]
