James Watts Continues Assault on Wilderness with New Tactics

Discusses cases of the threat of wilderness protection for the sake of oil and gas development.

Creator: Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, In Brief

Source: A newsletter on environmental law published three times a year by SCLDF.

Date: 1980s

Type: Newsletter

Coverage: America's wilderness

Physical Dimensions:

Identifier: MS-HUMMEL-BonnyDoonEnvironmentalProtectionGeneralCAandUSA-04

Collection

Marilyn Hummel: Bonny Doon History and Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve

Tags

1976 Act; 921 Bureau of Land Management; Act of Congress; BLM; Bob Marshall Alliance v. Watt; Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives; Crested Butte; de facto wilderness; Deep Creek; Department of the Interior; designated wilderness areas; Executive Branch; executive fiat; executive release; Forest Service Colorado West Elk Wilderness Area; Glacier National Parks, Montana; Great Bear; grizzly bears; Interior Department; Learned v. Watt; Lewis and Clark National Forest; Lincoln National Forest; Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Watt; National Environmental Policy Act; National Wilderness Preservation System; New Mexico's Capitan Mountain Wilderness; Pacific Legal Foundation v. Watt; Palisades area; RARE II process; RMOGA v. Watt; Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association; Scapegoat Wilderness; SCLDF; Secretary of the Interior James Watt; Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug 1947; Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act; Sierra Club v. Peterson; Sierra Club v. Watt; Smokey the Bear; Targhee and Bridger-Teton National Forests; Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; Teton Wilderness; United States District Court in Montana; United States District Court in Wyoming; United States Geological Survey; Western Governers' Association Conference 1981; wildernes study areas; Wilderness Act of 1964; Wilderness Society; Wyoming's Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund fights for the preservation of wilderness against challengeds by Secretary of the Interior James Watt in 1980s.

Citation

Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, In Brief. “James Watts Continues Assault on Wilderness with New Tactics.” A newsletter on environmental law published three times a year by SCLDF. 1980s. SCPL Local History. https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/143157. Accessed 4 July 2026.