The Conservation Alliance

The Wilderness Society's (TWS) mission is to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places. Founded in 1935, TWS works to protect wild lands throughout the country. Idaho has more roadless land than any other state in the lower 48, and TWS has worked to protect Idaho's wild heritage for decades.

In Idaho, as part of the Owyhee Initiative, TWS recently helped to designate the first Wilderness area in the State since 1980.  Expanding on the success in the Owyhee Canyonlands, we are currently working on an effort to protect wild landsapes in the Clearwater Basin of Idaho.

With over 1.2 million acres of contiguous roadless land, the Clearwater Basin is one of the last great unprotected blocks of roadless land in the lower 48.  Bordered by the Selway Bitteroot Wilderness to the south, the Clearwater Basin is a massive, remote and rugged landscape that has inspired people for generations.

This landscape is world renowned for its recreation and wildlife values, and is home to iconic rivers like the Lochsa and Selway.  It is also provides some of the best and furthest inland spawning habitat for Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Trout. 

The Wilderness Society has been working with the Clearwater Basin Collaborative for 3 years to develop a land protection proposal in the Clearwater Basin. 

For more information on the group, check out www.clearwaterbasincollaborative.org.