Wild Basics

This is the place to get smarter about Wilderness, Montana’s wildlands, and agreements and legislation that are critical to Wilderness protection and enjoyment.

Our factsheet describes all of Montana’s wild places by the numbers, giving acreage for Wilderness, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, and state totals.

A number of tutorials summarize the various aspects of Wilderness, including the meaning of a Wilderness Designation, how a Wilderness bill is passed by Congress, how Wilderness benefits all of us, the threats to an area even after it is protected as Wilderness, the grave threats to wild lands in general, some of the misconceptions about Wilderness, and how we protect areas that deserve to be Wilderness.

You may also review the Wilderness Act of 1964 that governs all Wilderness legislation.