Remnants of stone wall underneath starry night sky

Mason Cummings, TWS

2023 was full of victories.

It’s become an end-of-year cliché to claim the last 12 months were uniquely bad. Let’s highlight some of the things that went right.

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Northern Red Desert, Wyoming

Wide open spaces: Protecting the Northern Red Desert from drilling

Mason Cummings, TWS

DOI Secretary Haaland shaking hands with a group of people during ceremony at Avi Kwa Ame

9 Indigenous-led conservation wins and advancements from 2023

DOI

Women in foreground marching at rally and holding signs during Global Climate Strike in 2019 in Washington, DC

We zoomed in to find creative climate and environmental solutions

Carla Ruas, TWS

A view of the Tres Hermanas Mountains in the proposed Mimbres Peaks National Monument.

Community-driven campaign calls for new Mimbres Peaks National Monument

Mason Cummings

Public bus on road in Albuquerque NM

Zero Fares program now permanent

Mason Cummings

A beautiful lake on a blue sky day, a mountain is in the background

Mount Blue Sky is official, now it’s time for the wilderness to match

Mason Cummings

Owyhee Canyonlands, Oregon.

What could be next on Biden’s conservation marathon?

Andrew Sambuceto

A group of women march on a trail where their ancestors from the past watch over them.

Nüümü Poyo: Healing and reclamation on the John Muir Trail with Indigenous Women Hike

Lily Padula

A lush forest with river running through on a beautiful sunny

Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine Protected from All Oil and Gas Development After 40 years

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Together we can protect public lands, now and forever.

Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

Twilight in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

Nearly 112 million acres of wilderness protected

Miles Morgan

Protecting 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 to meet environmental challenges

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Key Issues

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Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina

Working together for a more inclusive future

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Join the movement for wildlands

Defend our wildlands!

Racist or offensive names persist in U.S. parks; new plan confronts them

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Climate March in Washington, DC

More than 1 million members and supporters are making a difference

Jonathan Meyers, The Wilderness Society

How do we tackle climate change? Look no further than public lands

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Climate Change Solutions

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There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness.

Bob Marshall Founder of The Wilderness Society

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