Sixty years since Congress passed the Wilderness Act, celebrate with a hike. These five in Washington's Alpines Lakes Wilderness were picked by Nathan Barnes.

Sept. 3 of this year marked the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. On that day 60 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act of 1964 into law, officially creating the ...

The alpine club has always supported wilderness, and we support the regulation of fixed anchors. We just don’t think it should start from that baseline of being prohibited. Now Congress and the ...

Sept. 3, 1964 is the date President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act. Many conservationists had been pushing this concept for years. The Wilderness Act is considered one of America’s ...

Wilderness Workshop hosted an event on Tuesday to celebrate 60 years of the Wilderness Act. The event, called A Wild Ride: Celebrating 60 Years of the Wilderness Act, was hosted at The Arts Campus At ...

Initially passed in 1964, the Wilderness Act just recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. Since signed into law, the act has protected 112 million acres of public lands across 44 states, and ...

Passage of the Wilderness Act was anything but a foregone conclusion.. First introduced in Congress in 1956, the “often-sidetracked Wilderness Bill,” as New York Times writer William M. Blair called ...

The Wilderness Act was passed into law 60 years ago. We should seize this moment to reinvigorate bipartisan support for land conservation and expand wilderness protection, writes Tom Butler.

The PARC Act and AORA ensure that our wilderness areas remain reasonably safe and accessible to climbers, as has been the status quo. The BCC thanks Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. John Hickenlooper for ...

The 1964 Wilderness Act celebrates its 60th anniversary today. Diamonds are given on the 60th wedding anniversary and presumably represent strength, but from a humanitarian lens, diamonds have ...

Introduction. Passage of the Wilderness Act was anything but a foregone conclusion. First introduced in Congress in 1956, the “often-sidetracked Wilderness Bill,” as New York Times writer William M.