- http://www.wildwilderness.org 2008-07-05T20:50:10+01:00 text/html 2016-06-19T18:02:52+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/13/ When you venture in to the wilderness, do you seek nature and solitude or ticket lines and two-stroke engines? If recreation industry heavyweights have... text/html 2008-07-01T19:05:42+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/967/64/ [There are] ways to trim a bloated, deficit-ridden state government budget. One would be to make many agencies and commissions self-supporting through user... text/html 2008-07-01T06:30:19+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/966/62/ What follows is a comment letter sent to the Supervisor of the Shawnee National Forest. Hurston A. Nicholas, Forest Supervisor Shawnee National Forest RE: Shawnee Recreation Fee... text/html 2008-06-30T08:18:27+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/965/58/ Daily progress is being made in the ongoing fight to end pay-to-play on the national forests and today I have good news to share. That... text/html 2008-06-20T13:58:00+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/964/58/ I know the 'Badlands' east of Bend well. Our Senator, Ron Wyden, is currently working to designate this area as 'Wilderness' and our town is... text/html 2008-06-17T13:43:47+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/963/58/ Do own a boat? Several boats, perhaps? How about a toy boat? My wife, son and I own a motorized dingy. We pay a registration fee for... text/html 2008-06-16T17:10:48+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/962/58/ The US Forest Service lost the authority to charge entrance fees in late 2004 when the recreation fee demonstration program was repealed and previous fee... text/html 2008-06-10T13:59:03+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/961/62/ Those who believe in the US Forest Service and have faith in them -- are will likely see one thing in the appended News Release.... text/html 2008-06-05T09:27:13+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/960/63/ DEAR PUBLIC LANDS SUPPORTER: Fee Alert! A congressional hearing has been scheduled in Washington DC for Wednesday June 18th at 10am EDT, on public lands access fees. Your... text/html 2008-06-03T11:42:34+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/959/58/ The American Recreation Coalition (http://www.funoutdoors.com/node/view/2069) and the Forest Service (http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/) have partnered up yet again. As part of ARC's upcoming Great Outdoors Lobby Week, on... text/html 2008-06-03T09:40:18+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/958/58/ Dear Public Lands Supporter: The two class action lawsuits filed on May 5 against the Forest Service in Arizona and Colorado are starting to draw media... text/html 2008-05-23T13:42:54+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/957/64/ Forest Fees were in 1997 an isolated example of the neoliberal privatization agenda at work. Few of the people with whom I then communicated... text/html 2008-05-23T10:58:03+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/956/64/ Advertisers have no manners, zero regard for privacy and absolutely no respect for the sanctity of unmolested public space. They'll hit potential customers anywhere they... text/html 2008-04-17T08:46:31+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/955/64/ In yesterday's Salt Lake Tribune, Tom Wharton's appeared under the headline Public-lands bill may look better, but it's still a pig. His column... text/html 2008-04-15T11:38:04+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/954/64/ I've posted below a column from the Idaho Statesman written by their outdoor writer, Pete Zimowsky. Zimo has been reporting upon the recreation fee issue... text/html 2008-04-09T09:49:24+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/953/64/ Quoted from appended article from the New jersey press about proposed park privatization: Privatization doesn't usually help the parks. It does, however, often result... text/html 2008-04-02T12:39:27+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/952/62/ The headline given to the appended Op-Ed was Compromise not option on proposed wilderness. The author is adamant in his position and states... text/html 2008-04-01T08:03:32+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/951/61/ As a devout backcountry skier, I find that as much as I have reason to take offense with snowmobiles and those who ride 'em, I... text/html 2008-03-29T07:55:47+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/950/58/ Yesterday I offered my congratulations (http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/949/113/) to those dedicated, public-spirited activists who insisted that the National Park Service comply with environmental laws and manage Yosemite... text/html 2008-03-28T13:36:42+01:00 http://www.wildwilderness.org http://www.wildwilderness.org/content/view/949/58/ Congratulations are in order for everyone associated with yesterday's big win for Yosemite National Park. Yesterday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeal dismissed the National...