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Dana Johnson

Dana Johnson

Dana Johnson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. She is a staff attorney and policy director for Wilderness Watch, a national wilderness nonprofit.

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A climber at The Grotto, a popular rock-climbing area in California. (Casey Batchelder/Bureau of Reclamation, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

Wilderness areas need restraint, not climbing hardware

By: - June 12, 2023

We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want?  That’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. They want to enter designated wilderness areas in order to drill permanent anchors into wilderness rock faces, turning these wild places into sport-climbing walls.  When the Wilderness […]