There are still spaces remaining on WV service projects in several outstanding wild places. Here are a few of the places that have spots a...

Hiking in the John Muir Wilderness A new publication from The Wilderness Society celebrates the role of wilderness in shaping our n...

Howard Zahniser The founders of the Wilderness Society knew that the the early wilderness areas didn't have adequate protections as ...

Aldo Leopold was the first to use the word wilderness to describe the areas he wanted to be preserved in the National Forests. He worked in...

Thomas Moran's  "Tower Creek, Yellowstone" In 1872, Yellowstone was designated a "public park or pleasuring ground f...

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, signed into law by President Johnson on September 3rd, 1964. Wilderness Volunteers is...