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Mike Garrity writes, "There's a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone National Park and comprising the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem."

Katie Bilodeu writes, "Some argue that recreationists are the best wilderness advocates. But if a climber only cares about Wilderness so long as she can use fixed anchors, or a biker only cares about Wilderness insofar as he can bike there, do these folks really care about Wilderness? "

A number of oil and gas leases in southern Utah, one of which was so controversial that seven Democratic U.S. senators urged the federal government to cancel it, are now the subject of an environmental lawsuit.

Kevin Proescholdt writes, "Let’s cherish our wilderness heritage, whole and intact. We owe it to the farseeing founders of the Wilderness Act, and we owe it to future generations."

Joseph Scalia III writes, "Most crucially untold is the loss of the Porcupine and Buffalo Horn drainages, the most wildlife vital part of the lands in question."

Nancy Ostlie writes, "Only 2.7 percent of the roadless lands in the lower 48 are Wilderness, and visionary Montana leaders of past decades recognized the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area as the most obvious and perfect example to set aside."

Steve Kelly writes, "Wilderness landscapes face overwhelming physical threats from extractive industries, and other settler-colonialist enterprise."

Plan from Mesa and Montrose counties would reduce proposed monument area by more than 90%.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has denied its biologists’ request for a pay raise, which would have put them on par with other biologists around the Northern Rocky Mountain region.

American Prairie continues to expand its land holdings in north-central Montana, announcing last week it now holds more than 475,000 acres of land after acquiring another 12,534 acres in Phillips County on two parcels.