Tim Mahoney, policy director of the Pew Campaign for America's Wilderness, said activists would have to work with Congress and the administration in the months ahead if they hoped to institute broader wilderness safeguards than what Salazar is now proposing.
One lawsuit, filed in District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday — by the Wilderness Society, Great Old Broads for Wilderness and eight other groups — is in defense of Grand Staircase.
Rose Chilcoat of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, a group of mostly female conservationists, says the riders dynamited bits of rock to make their path easier and tore up interesting archaeological sites.
We also found out that possums are responsible for the destruction of broad swathes of wilderness every year (tsk, tsk).
"When we chose to go broad, we were wandering the wilderness.
We had decided to navigate a loop of our own devising — into the wilderness area, down a broad and (we hoped) frozen river, and back by a different route to our cabin.
Matt heads to the man-made wilderness of the Norfolk Broads to witness one of the most ambitious wildlife projects the area has ever seen.
Nevertheless, he looked at a great stretch of wilderness and envisioned a beautiful broad highway along which horsemen and carriages and promenaders would travel.
While noting that the report does not call for building roads in roadless forests or removing biomass from wilderness areas, he warns of broad ecological consequences from removing massive amounts of tree biomass and thus essential nutrients.
For a broad range of laypersons interviewed in Müritz National Park, "wilderness" seems to be a suitable, positive label for wetlands, shorelines, large forests and remote mountain areas.
The frontier of New France was not a broad front of advance but, rather, a penetration of the wilderness via the rivers in search of furs and strategic position.
