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Family shares video tour of off-grid compound in US wilderness: 'Enjoying the peace and quiet'

"Sounds like an awesome life." Family shares video tour of off-grid compound in US wilderness: 'Enjoying the peace and quiet' ...
Yahoo

Idaho’s largest wilderness area just got a tiny bit bigger. Here’s how that happens

The largest contiguous wilderness area in the Lower 48 states just grew by 38 acres. A nonprofit that converts private land in wilderness areas for public use last week turned over a mining claim ...
KSBW The Central Coast

Formerly private land in Ventana Wilderness to be made public

One-hundred-sixty acres of formerly private land in the Ventana Wilderness will now be protected.Earlier this week, the Wilderness Land Trust purchased the Church Creek property in the middle of the ...

Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness increases in size by nearly 100 acres

Central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness got a little bit bigger this fall thanks to a partnership between ...
HeraldNet

Wild Sky Wilderness grows 345 acres, as transfer chips at private land

INDEX — The Wild Sky Wilderness just got a little bigger. Last week, 345 acres of land in the wilderness were transferred from private to public ownership through the Wilderness Land Trust, a ...
Alaska Public Media

Conservation groups add land to the Kootznoowoo Wilderness

Two brown bears on July 10, 2012 in the Kootznoowoo Wilderness on Admiralty Island in the Tongass National Forest. (Photo courtesy (Don MacDougall/U.S. Forest Service) The vast Tongass National Forest ...

Tolkkinen: Why worry about traffickers destroying Boundary Waters when Stauber is willing to do it himself?

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would allow spy equipment, motorized vehicles in the BWCAW and Voyageurs National Park.
Post Register

Frank Church wilderness grows by 38 acres

Land previously used for mining has been added to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. The Wilderness Land Trust transferred the 38-acre Surprise Lode property to public ownership in early ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Wilderness Land Trust acquires property just outside Mount Massive Wilderness

Mount Champion and Independence Pass, south of Aspen, is a popular destination for visitors and locals. Much of the mountain’s south and west faces have been privately owned, a news release from The ...
The Points Guy

Best Alaska cruisetours to book right now

Alaskan cruisetours pair a weeklong cruise of the Inside Passage with a multiday land journey into Alaska’s vast wilderness.
Aspen Daily News

Donation puts land east of Independence Pass summit into public hands

Private land that could have been prime ground for development of homes, mines or both on the east side of Independence Pass will soon be in public hands thanks to a donation from a familiar face in ...
The Aspen Times

DeGette adds land to wilderness bill, doesn’t expect OK

U.S. Rep. Dianna DeGette, D-Colo., knows her wilderness bill has little chance of earning speedy approval, but that didn’t stop her from adding lands to her proposal Friday. DeGette made changes to ...