The Wilderness Act
Is the Wilderness Act still protecting nature? - The Desert Sun
Wilderness Act protections mean that scientists cannot establish weather stations, deploy semi-permanent sensors, establish remotely triggered ...
Protecting our National Treasures: The Wilderness Act of 1964
The Wilderness Act was one of the most influential, immediately protecting 9 million acres of land at the time of its establishment and paving the way for over ...
AN ACT. To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate ...
The Wilderness Act of 1964 | Overview, Organizations & Creation
What is the Wilderness Act of 1964? The Wilderness Act of 1964, a US conservation law, established the National Wilderness Preservation System, prohibited man- ...
Protecting America's Wilderness Act 116th Congress (2019-2020)
102) The bill designates specified federal lands in Colorado as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. If the Bureau of ...
The Wilderness Act (1964) - Appalachian Trail Histories
The Wilderness Act (1964) ... The Wilderness Act of 1964 began as an idea first floated at the Sierra Club's Second Wilderness Conference in March 1951.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act
On Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, preserving 54 areas as wilderness, totaling 9.1 million acres in 13 ...
Sixty years after its signing, the Wilderness Act's impact lives on in ...
The Wilderness Act was signed into law on September 3, 1964. With the stroke of his pen, President Lyndon Johnson offered permanent protections ...
What Comes After the Wilderness Act? - Hill Heat
this Zoom roundtable conversation asks how we should understand the Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary—a moment both of Indigenous ...
Paving the Way for a Wilderness Act - B&C Impact Series
The Impact Series is dedicated to showing how sportsmen, members of the Boone and Crockett Club in particular, saved the wildlife and wild places of the United ...
Wilderness Act 60th Anniversary | Sierra Club
On September 3, 2023, we hail the 59th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Wilderness Act that established America's National Wilderness ...
Wilderness Act 50th anniversary
3, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the United States Wilderness Act, creating the world's largest National Wilderness Preservation System. A total of ...
60th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act - Sierra Magazine
This year we celebrate 60 years since the passing of the Wilderness Act in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This act furthered the ...
The first bill to create a National Wilderness Preservation System was introduced in 1956. The 1964 Wilderness Act took eight years, eighteen hearings, and ...
The Wilderness Act in Rocky Mountain National Park
In 2009 the United States Congress agreed to set aside 94 percent of Rocky Mountain National Park as designated wilderness. This act was the result of a thirty- ...
Our Mission | Preserving a Rich Legacy of Protected Wilderness ...
The Trust was created to supplement The 1964 Wilderness Act that created a system of 765 wilderness areas, by acquiring inholdings in those areas to protect ...
16 USC - Chapter 23: National Wilderness Preservation System
The National Wilderness Preservation System is to be composed of federally owned areas designated by the Congress as "wilderness areas". The ...
... the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964. This act provides a statutory basis for wilderness management. This law is arguably one of the most visionary and ...
USDA Forest Service on X: "Sixty years ago, the #Wilderness Act ...
Sixty years ago, the #Wilderness Act was passed to designate & protect designated wilderness areas - today, 112 million acres (larger than ...
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Wikipedia
The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975. The Act designated 16 new wilderness areas in the Eastern ...