Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society wrote the Wilderness Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–577). After over sixty drafts...

Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized...

wilderness areas. Howard Zahniser created the first draft of the Wilderness Act in 1956. It took nine years and 65 rewrites before the Wilderness Act...

instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act led to the creation of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which protects...

efforts, The Wilderness Society helped gain passage of the Wilderness Act. The Act was passed by Congress in 1964 and legally defined wilderness areas of...

along the Central Coast of California. This wilderness was established in 1969 when the Ventana Wilderness Act redesignated the 55,800-acre (22,600 ha) Ventana...

Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978. The area is a popular destination for canoeing, hiking, and fishing, and is the most visited wilderness in the United...

1964 Wilderness Act. The primary drafter of the Wilderness Act was Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), who served as executive secretary of the Wilderness Society...

The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness Area is a protected wilderness area in Idaho. It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress and...

The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km2) of federal land...

wilderness characteristics as described in Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and Section 2(c) of the Wilderness Act of...

The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 93–622, 88 Stat. 2096) was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 3...

First protected under the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Mokelumne's borders were expanded under the California Wilderness Act of 1984 with the addition...

The New England Wilderness Act of 2006 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–382 (text) (PDF)) was signed into law by President George W. Bush...

Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law in September of that year. The Wilderness Act established America's National Wilderness Preservation System...

Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness is the smallest designated wilderness area created by the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. A 1980 Bureau of Land...

Tulip Poplar. The Sipsey Wilderness Hiking Club promotes hiking in the Sipsey Wilderness. Faults in the 1964 Wilderness Act made it essentially impossible...

Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 and protects the northern portion of the Arrow Canyon Range. The Arrow Canyon Wilderness is managed by the Bureau...

The California Wilderness Act of 1984 is a federal law (Public Law 98-425), passed by the United States Congress on September 28, 1984, that authorized...

The Vermont Wilderness Act of 1984 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 98–322, 98 Stat. 253) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on June 19...

of wilderness areas in Nevada List of U.S. Wilderness Areas Wilderness Act Protected Planet Website- Retrieved March 28, 2023 Bristlecone Wilderness -...

eight officially designated wilderness areas in the Green Mountain National Forest (from north to south): Each of these wilderness areas is wholly located...

Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed March 12, 2019, expanded the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness by approximately 2,250 acres. Translated...

Movement" by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act, and was instrumental in creating the Arctic...

Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it encompasses 652,793 acres (2,641.76 km2). The wilderness lies along the eastern...

areas are designated lands that meet criteria of the Wilderness Act and are managed as wilderness by their parent agency, pending final determination by...

Agriculture, it received wilderness designation on February 24, 1978 through the passage of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and is part of Nez Perce...

preserving 18,500 acres under protection of the Wilderness Act, a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The legislation was signed...

public land within the wilderness. The Wilderness Act prohibits commercial enterprises on public land designated as wilderness, but permits grazing when...

Passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964 provided for this wilderness to become part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The wilderness is named in...