The Wilderness Society is a U.S.-based conservation organization that advocates to protect and restore public lands, wilderness areas, national parks and wildlife habitat, and to advance policies linking public-land stewardship with climate resilience and biodiversity preservation.
Advocacy for public-lands protection and wilderness designation, opposition to expanded fossil-fuel leasing and extraction on federal lands, support for funding and capacity for land-management agencies (BLM, USFS, NPS), conservation financing, biodiversity and species protection, public-access and outdoor recreation policy, and climate mitigation/adaptation measures tied to lands policy.
Primarily funded by individual members and donors plus grants from philanthropic foundations and charitable contributions.
Often works in coalition with other national and regional conservation organizations and legal partners such as Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon and Earthjustice, as well as state conservation groups and Tribal governments and communities.
non-profit (national environmental advocacy organization / 501(c)(3))
