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Wilderness Act - Ballotpedia

The act originally set aside 9.1 million acres of federal land as protected wilderness areas, which cannot contain any permanent or temporary roads, commercial ...

The Wilderness Act at 60: A uniquely American legacy - Frontier Group

A law rooted in feelings of national, rather than partisan belonging, the Wilderness Act continues to provide vital safeguards for America's ...

S.1535 - America's Red Rock Wilderness Act 117th Congress (2021 ...

Summary of S.1535 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): America's Red Rock Wilderness Act.

People Protecting Wilderness for People - The Pew Charitable Trusts

Thanks to the power of the Wilderness Act, once designated by. Congress, America's wilderness areas are wild by law. These lands are, in the words of the Act, “ ...

Wilderness Act Guide: Requirements, Process and Compliance for ...

The Wilderness Act of 1964 is a landmark federal law that established the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) and set forth the framework for ...

Reflections on the Wilderness Act at 50 - High Country News

The drafters of the Wilderness Act were not innocent romantics; they debated many of these questions and wrote a law with considerable nuance.

What Comes After the Wilderness Act? - The Natural History Museum

this roundtable conversation asks how we should understand the Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary—a moment both of Indigenous resurgence and ...

The 1964 Wilderness Act

Introduction. In 1964 Congress designated America's first federal wilderness areas. Since 1964 the. National Wilderness Preservation System has grown from 9 ...

America's Wilderness - Video (U.S. National Park Service)

The Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System, a national network of more than 800 federally-designated wilderness areas.

America's Red Rock Wilderness Act

America's Red Rock Wilderness Act. This visionary legislation would designate more than 8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land in Utah as wilderness, ...

16 U.S. Code Chapter 23 - Law.Cornell.Edu

National Wilderness Preservation System · § 1132. Extent of System · § 1133. Use of wilderness areas · § 1134. State and private lands within wilderness ...

60 Years of Wilderness! | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The Wilderness Act of 1964 allows Congress to designate wilderness areas for protection to ensure that America's pristine wild lands will not disappear.

Signed 60 years ago today, the United States' #Wilderness Act was ...

The United States' Wilderness Act was landmark legislation that set aside 9 million acres of wilderness for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

The Wilderness Act Is Still Protecting Nature, If We Allow It - Rewilding

We must re-learn to practice the humility and restraint toward Wilderness that the architects of the Wilderness Act believed in 60 years ago ...

Wilderness Act: Summary, Impact, and Current Status - Treehugger

The Wilderness Act protects 111 million acres of land in the US as wilderness areas. Learn what this designation means and the impact the law has had.

16 USC 1133: Use of wilderness areas - U.S. Code

528–531]. (2) Nothing in this chapter shall modify the restrictions and provisions of the Shipstead-Nolan Act (Public Law 539, Seventy-first Congress, ...

The 1964 Wilderness Act, from “wilderness idea” to governmental ...

Most significantly, the Wilderness Act enlarged federal responsibilities in terms of wilderness preservation, especially as it gave Congress power to designate ...

Wilderness Designation FAQs

Since the Wilderness Act passed in 1964, Congress has designated nearly 112 million acres of federal wildlands as official wilderness.

The Wilderness Act of 1964 - Best Rafting and Kayaking Expeditions

The act stated that for the long term BLM lands could remain owned by the government. The government then assessed these lands in the late 1970's and early ...

Wilderness | Bureau of Land Management

In 1964, Congress established the National Wilderness Preservation System through the Wilderness Act and since its establishment, has passed 150 additional laws ...