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.

Among the provisions in the wide-ranging EXPLORE Act signed by Joe Biden were protections for rock climbers who use fixed anchors for safety in National Parks, Forests.

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 ...

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 ...

Wilderness areas are the crown jewel of our public-land system, and are the most durable form of protection, meant to outlast generations and presidential cycles. You need an act of Congress for ...

CU Boulder’s Paul S. Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee Passage of the Wilderness Act was anything but a foregone conclusion. First introduced ...

Protecting remaining wildlands and fostering wilderness recovery, or rewilding, is an act of radical humility that offers myriad benefits for human well-being, ecological health and climate stability.

The proposed guidance would change the way fixed anchors have been viewed since the Wilderness Act of 1964.

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 ...

CU Boulder's environmental historian, Paul S. Sutter, takes a look back at the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.