Alaskan wilderness articles
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Wilderness pushed to brink of elimination
Anchorage took a 2-0 lead in their playoff series by winning in overtime.
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Wolverines put an end to Wilderness season
Anchorage will move on in the NAHL Robertson Cup playoffs.
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Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?
At the end of 2023, four environmental groups sued the National Park Service and invoked the Wilderness Act to stop the replanting of trees following a catastrophic wildfire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Around the same time, the National Park Service announced that it aimed to invoke the Wilderness Act to limit the use of fixed anchors on Yosemite’s iconic big wall climbs. How did a law created 60 years ago to protect nature in undeveloped areas come to do something else...