Great News on the Flathead Valley!
Conservation groups announced last week that they have mobilized more than $10 million in public and private funds to protect from mining and oil and gas development the spectacular and internationally important in the Flathead River Valley, a vast wilderness that...
National Wilderness Month
Perhaps not at the top of list for politicking in the steamy race for the U.S. Presidency, wilderness remains a priority for the current Administration and will be on the agenda for the next Congress. President Barack Obama has declared September as National...
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Native Lands & Wilderness Council: 2012 Regional Gathering
You’re invited! Native Lands and Wilderness Council 2012 Regional Gathering Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness Salish Kootenai College – Pablo, Montana Flathead Indian Reservation September 5-7, 2012 Hosted by:...
Graduation marks new beginnings for vulnerable youth
Changing the world requires people who are willing to change themselves…this is as true for people working in nature and wilderness conservation as it is for anyone else. The students and potential young leaders in the year-long training program of Umzi Wethu...
Samburu warriors as ambassadors for lion conservation
In 2010, WILD partnered with the Ewaso Lions Project, which promotes coexistence between lions and local pastoralists in northern Kenya, where rising conflict has contributed to a declining lion population with less than 2,000 individuals remaining. Ewaso Lions is a...
Black bears living near Colorado’s I-70 will benefit from proposed wildlife bridge
A study was conducted in 2009 and 2010 to count the animal species whose territories overlap the heavily traveled section of I-70 in Colorado from Dotsero to Golden. The results of this study are helpful to support the construction of wildlife over and underpasses...
The Murie Center: Conservation’s Home
As mentioned in the previous “Pronghorn Migration” blog by Alyson Duffey, the WILD staff in Boulder recently took a road trip to visit with our friends and partners at The Murie Center in Jackson Hole, WY. And what a phenomenal trip it was! We couldn’t have asked for...
The Great Migration: the Path of the Pronghorn
The WILD staff in Boulder recently took a road trip up to Jackson, Wyoming to meet with our rock star partners in conservation, The Murie Center. Around Laramie, Wyoming the expansiveness of the undeveloped land softened me and I wondered how long it would be until...