The Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act of 1964 - USDA Forest Service
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 1964 Wilderness Act, written by The Wilderness Society's Howard Zahniser created the National Wilderness Preservation System, which protects 111 million ...
Law and Policy - Wilderness (U.S. National Park Service)
The Wilderness Act was passed in 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This Act established the National Wilderness Preservation ...
Wilderness Act of 1964 | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System and authorizes Congress to designate wilderness areas.
The Wilderness Act of 1964 ( Pub. L. 88–577) is a federal land management statute meant to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for ...
A Cheat Sheet for Demystifying... The Wilderness Act Public Law 88 ...
Text in italics is quotes from the Act. Background: The Act was signed September 3, 1964. It created the Wilderness. Preservation System and immediately ...
60th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
In 2024, the United States is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. This pathbreaking legislation marked the first time that a nation had ...
16 USC 1131: National Wilderness Preservation System - U.S. Code
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 ...
Wilderness Act | US Conservation, Preservation & Protection
The Wilderness Act was a landmark victory for the environmental movement. Since 1964 more than 100 million acres (40 million hectares) have been made part of ...
1964: Wilderness Act - Forest History Society
Johnson on September 3, 1964, the Wilderness Act designated all previously existing Wild Areas, Canoe Areas, and Wilderness Areas as Wilderness. At the time, ...
Wilderness Preservation Act, U.S.A. | AMNH
The Wilderness Preservation Act, passed in 1964, established the National Wilderness Preservation System and set forth criteria for designating lands for ...
The Wilderness Act initially protected 54 wilderness areas (9.1 million acres) by withdrawing them from standard multiple use management and established a ...
Wilderness (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 ...
“The Wilderness Act” - YouTube
This 9-minute video introduces the audience to the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the National Wilderness Preservation System.
The 1964 Wilderness Act established a National Wilderness Preservation System of federal lands. “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled ...
What Comes After the Wilderness Act? - The Natural History Museum
What Comes After the Wilderness Act? · This event is organized by Rosalyn LaPier as part of ·, a programming series organized by the 2023-2025 ...
Wilderness Act of 1964 | Save the Boundary Waters
Wilderness Act of 1964 ... On September 3, 1964, the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Wilderness Act ...
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: Summary, Impact, and Current Status - Treehugger
The Wilderness Act of 1964 was established to create a preservation system for the country's wild areas and require federal land management agencies to ...
In Praise of the Wilderness Act | Sierra Club
So it is with wilderness. Even if these gifts aren't for us, we also benefit from the offering. The wilderness can, as Aldo Leopold wrote of his land ethic, “ ...