• The William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County. It...
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    The USS Whitney (AD-4) was named after him when launched on October 12, 1923, at the Boston Navy Yard The William C. Whitney Wilderness Area of the Adirondack...
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    Hamilton County, New York by Whitney Headquarters, New York. It is located in the 19,500-acre William C. Whitney Wilderness Area. Of the 100 largest lakes...
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    Several specimens escaped six years later, dispersing into the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, with their descendants surviving for at least 20 years. The...
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    Heather. After they divorced, Marylou married C.V. Whitney in 1958. They had one daughter, Cornelia. C.V. Whitney died in 1992, leaving Marylou with an estate...
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    Lake Lila (category Protected areas of Hamilton County, New York)
    Lake Lila is a remote 1,436-acre (5.81 km2) lake in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, in the west-central portion of the Adirondack Park. It is accessed...
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    vicinity of Lake Lila in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area and along the Remsen to Lake Placid railroad. The area can also be reached from the southwest...
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  • Lake Wilderness Area - 105,270 acres (426.013 km2) West Canada Lake Wilderness Area - 156,695 acres (634.122 km2) William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - 20...
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    acres (426.01 km2) West Canada Lake Wilderness Area - 168,920 acres (634.12 km2) William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - 19,500 acres (83.0 km2) The 19,000-acre...
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    of Long Lake in Hamilton County. It is adjacent to the William C. Whitney Wilderness. The area is approximately 11,000 acres (45 km2); it was created...
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    Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation...
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    John Muir Trail (category Protected areas established in 1915)
    Muir Wilderness and Ansel Adams Wilderness), passing through Devils Postpile National Monument, Kings Canyon National Park, and ending on Mount Whitney in...
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    430-acre Round Lake Wilderness Area are part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, adjacent to the 19,500-acre William C. Whitney Wilderness in the Adirondack...
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    Inyo County, California (category Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers)
    Forest Service. Some of these wilderness areas also extend into neighboring counties. Except as noted, the wilderness areas are managed solely by the Bureau...
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    Kings Canyon National Park (category Protected areas of the Sierra Nevada (United States))
    River and many smaller streams, is designated wilderness. Tourist facilities are concentrated in two areas: Grant Grove, home to General Grant (the second...
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    Life of Heber C. Kimball (1888), Orson F. Whitney Journal Excerpts, from Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball sections of Heber C. Kimball's autobiography...
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    American Women in Environmental History. (Oxford UP, 2012) Whitney, Gordon G. From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in...
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    (BLM): Arrow Canyon Wilderness (BLM) Black Canyon Wilderness (Nevada) (Lake Mead National Recreational Area [NRA]) Bridge Canyon Wilderness (Lake Mead NRA)...
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    Krebs Wilderness in 2009. The area which now is Sequoia National Park shows evidence of Native American settlement as early as AD 1000. The area was first...
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    Inyo National Forest (category Protected areas of Esmeralda County, Nevada)
    903,381 acres (2,974 sq mi; 7,703 km2) and includes nine designated wilderness areas which protect over 800,000 acres (1,200 sq mi; 3,200 km2). Most of...
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    The Wilderness Society, which also has a large permanent gallery of his work on display at its Washington, D.C. headquarters. The Minarets Wilderness in...
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  • into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Marcia Gay Harden as his mother, William Hurt as his father...
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  • The Bucks Lake Wilderness is a 23,958-acre (97.0 km2) wilderness area located in the Plumas National Forest section of the Sierra Nevada, in northeastern...
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    National parks in California (category Protected areas of California articles without parameters)
    States, Mount Whitney (14,505 feet (4,421 m)). Approximately 85 percent of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is a wilderness area inaccessible...
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    Mount Shasta (category Protected areas of Siskiyou County, California)
    There are seven named glaciers on Mount Shasta, with the four largest (Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, and Wintun) radiating down from high on the main summit...
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    The Kimberling Creek Wilderness is an area protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. It is managed...
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    undeveloped and 139,461 acres (218 sq mi) have been designated as wilderness areas, which prohibits future development. George Washington National Forest...
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    in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An...
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    Mount Corcoran (category Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness)
    and John Muir Wilderness. It is 12 miles (19 km) west-southwest of the community of Lone Pine, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southeast of Mount Whitney, 1.2 miles (1...
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    Mount Williamson (category Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness)
    stands in the John Muir Wilderness of the Inyo National Forest. It is located approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the...
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