Company Profile
The Wilderness Society
Company Overview
The Wilderness Society’s mission is to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. Direct personal experience is what inspires people to care for wild places, and recreation is by far the most important source of such inspiration. This is why we seek to make common cause with all who visit and cherish our public lands. We envision deep, broad, and varied constituencies – old and new together – working to promote widespread and sustainable enjoyment of natural places. Only by doing so can we ensure in a democracy the public support for protecting America’s public lands for all time to come – and ensure at the same time that all future Americans will be able to enjoy these experiences that we hold so dear.
Company History
Since its founding in 1935, The Wilderness Society has led the effort to permanently protect as designated Wilderness nearly 110 million acres in 44 states, from rich hardwood forests in the east, stunning deserts in the southwest, and snowcapped peaks in the Rockies to old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and tundra in Alaska. From the revolutionary 1964 Wilderness Act to the landmark 2009 bill that permanently protected more than two million acres of wilderness across the country, The Wilderness Society has been at the forefront of nearly every major public lands victory over the past 75 years. Our work has profoundly improved the way our shared national lands are managed and enjoyed.