EcoWatch: 2013 presented plenty of challenges for conservation. Special interest groups and anti-wilderness members of Congress continued their attempts to give away vast swaths of public wild lands to mining, logging and oil and gas interests. These attacks on wildlands included some of our most beloved, pristine areas from Yosemite National Park to the Arctic Refuge.
Together, The Wilderness Society and supporters fended off these attacks on majestic forests, parks, refuges and Bureau of Land Management...