The Campaign for America's Wilderness, a cornerstone of the Pew Environment Group’s commitment to protect public lands in the United States, Canada and Australia, works to protect the nation's remaining wild lands to ensure an enduring legacy of wilderness for future generations. The Campaign joins with state and local partners to raise public awareness of our special wild lands and to secure dependable, permanent protection for wild lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies. Since the Campaign was launched by Pew in 2002, Congress has added 158 new or expanded wilderness areas totaling nearly 5 million acres across 14 states and Puerto Rico.
Our work includes campaign planning and implementation, strategically placed resources for opinion research, communications and public education initiatives, grassroots organizing, electronic outreach, leadership training, and advocacy. Our staff, a highly skilled group of 14 professionals, has decades of leadership experience in every aspect of wilderness preservation. Members of our team have played key roles in the passage of every major piece of wilderness legislation in the last 35 years.
We work to help Americans become involved and effective in our nation's democratic process—helping citizens successfully win preservation of the special wilderness areas they know and love.
Download our brochure [PDF] - Learn more about how the Campaign works to protect the nation's last best wild places.
For more information about the Pew Environment Group’s work to safeguard public lands in the United States and internationally, please go to www.PewEnvironment.org.
