Read The Latest, Pew Environment Group's newsletter. Learn one woman's story about the shark attack that changed her life, veterans advocating for public lands protection, and a movement to create the first generation of great marine parks.

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Each monthly issue of Your Wilderness includes the latest wilderness news, including featured wilderness areas, profiles of local groups, and the status of wilderness legislation in Congress.

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Because Congress traditionally breaks for the Easter and Passover holidays, the House and Senate were in session for only half of April.

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Veterans of America's armed forces make all kinds of sacrifices to preserve the values that shape our national identity. Some return home intent on continuing their service in unexpected ways—such as advocating for protecting our public lands.

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Located near the intersection of the marine coastline, the warm semiarid desert of Southern California, and the cooler, wetter central regions of the state, the Los Padres National Forest forms one of the richest ecosystems in the world—attracting more than 1.8 million visitors a year.

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Barry Lopez came to town last month and delivered a talk entitled “The Writer and Social Responsibility,” which was as positively delightful as it was intellectually provocative.

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Under H.R. 1505, as reported out of House Natural Resources Committee April 17, 36 environmental and other protective statutes would be suspended on America’s public lands within 100 miles of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, including national parks, monuments, Indian reservations, wilderness, wildlife refuges, and other lands managed by U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture.

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On Earth Day, April 22, we celebrate a healthy planet and join with other Americans to do something to improve our environment.

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Our ancestors had the forethought to set aside some of these amazing places as national parks, forests, and wilderness areas, and we continue to work to protect even more of them today. We are thankful  for our wild places and would like to celebrate them in photos.

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Jim Mathews, policy manager of Pew’s Campaign for America’s Wilderness, issued the following statement praising Senator Jeff Bingaman’s (D-NM) decision to sponsor a bill to designate as wilderness more than 40,000 acres north of Taos, New Mexico.

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After a quiet start, the second session of the 112th Congress sprang to life in March, holding its first three hearings of the year on wilderness legislation—two in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate.

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There is a place in the United States so remote, so wild and untethered by man, so much like it was when the Blackfeet traversed its great expanses, that grizzly bears mark the beginning of each spring by awakening from their slumber to leave their mountain dens and roam the open plains of grass in search of deer and elk exactly as their ancestors have done for millennia.

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Earth Day lands officially on April 22 in 2012.

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Each monthly issue of Your Wilderness includes the latest wilderness news, including featured wilderness areas, profiles of local groups, and the status of wilderness legislation in Congress.

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