The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) would safeguard the roadless lands of the Custer Gallatin National Forest as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, the gold standard of land designations on our public lands.

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 -Wildgrounds to Playgrounds-
GYWA Webinar Event
Recorded April 8, 2022

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October 13th - Joseph Scalia, Strive for full, open debate on environmental issues, Bozeman Daily Chronicle

October 4th - George Wuerthner, A Fool’s Errand: Trying to Influence Fire by Logging, Counterpunch

September 13th - Mike Garrity, Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Yellowstone Grizzly Bears From Expanded Cattle Grazing, Counterpunch

September 6th - George Wuerthner & Phil Knight, Expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, The Wildlife News

August 9th - Bill Ripple et el., Rewilding the American West, BioScience

August 3rd - George Wuerthner, Defending the Big Wild, Counterpunch

July 27th - Mike Bader, Backcountry Dealing-Making on Montana Wilderness, Counterpunch

July 26th - Amanda Eggert, Where will all the wildlife go?, Montana Free Press

July 25th - George Wuerthner, Alternatives to Wilderness? Not Needed., The Wildlife News

July 20th - Ryan Devereaux, Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?, The Intercept

July 12th- George Wuerthner, A Greater Yellowstone National Park Proposal, Counterpunch

June 29th - Horejsi, Wuerthner, Bader & Gilbert, Guest view: Relocate the Old Gardiner Road, Montana Standard

June 21st - Mike Bader, Wild Green Washing Machines, CounterPunch

June 14th - Emily Tschetter, Bear experts: Urban-area grizzly encounters up in Missoula, city on ‘frontlines’ of issue, Missoula Current

June 13th - Justin Franz, Yellowstone National Park closed as rivers rise in southern Montana, Montana Free Press

June 13th - Mike Bader, Viewpoint: Bitterroot project a bait and switch, Missoula Current

June 5th - George Wuerthner, Viewpoint: Bitterroot project a bait and switch, The Wildlife News

June 3rd - George Wuerthner, Decision to Permit Livestock Grazing in Upper Green Allotments Betrayal of Public Trust, The Wildlife News

May 24th - Joseph Scalia, Must Environmental Leaders Conform? Or Dare We Actually Lead?, ReWilding Earth

May 23trd - George Wuerthner, “Stick to the Facts”–How Green Groups Fail to Protect the Gallatin Range, The Wildlife News

May 20th - Kabel Roedel, Analysis of recent federal land protections shows Western states are all over the map, KUNR

May 19th - Carole King, ‘America’s forests are a key climate solution’, The Hill

May 18th - George Wuerthner, Gratitude for National Parks, Counterpunch

May 16th - Todd Wilkinson, Grizzlies Around Yellowstone Are Entering A Big Squeeze, Mountain Journal

May 12th - George Wuerthner, Conservation Groups Threaten To Sue On East Paradise Grazing Decision, The Wildlife News

The Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance (GYWA) is a non-profit grassroots wilderness organization based in Bozeman, Montana. We formed in early 2019, at a time when our very planet and humanity itself are terribly imperiled, and too many conservation groups keep carving up the landscape, and calling it a victory. We aim to rally public support around the proposal to protect the remaining 1 million plus acres of roadless lands on the Custer Gallatin National Forest north of Yellowstone National Park as Wilderness. These vital wildlands contain world-class wildlife habitat and critical landscape linking the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to other large ecosystems to the north, creating connectivity crucial to the preservation of both the region's and the Earth's threatened biodiversity. Because these dangers have been kept from public awareness, we aim to respectfully open up a needed, hard conversation.