Wilderness Campaigns in Full Bloom
From Alaska and Arizona to Georgia and Virginia, The Wilderness Society and its partners are working across the country to protect wilderness.
>> A summary and status of wilderness bills introduced this year.
The 109th Congress adjourned at the beginning of 2007 after passing wilderness bills including the Ojito Wilderness Act in New Mexico, the Caribbean National Forest Wilderness Act and the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act.
>> Full list of wilderness areas designated in 2005 and 2006
All About Wilderness
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain ..."
- The Wilderness Act, September 3, 1964
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