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...

Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are Earth's natural environments 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...

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...

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...

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...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978 is a U.S. law (Pub.L. 95-495) that protects pristine forests, streams, and lakes in the Superior...

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

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

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

primary campaign of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is to build public support for America's Red Rock Wilderness Act, which was first introduced in Congress...

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

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...

became a Wilderness Area when the 1964 Wilderness Act was passed. It was significantly expanded to its present size in 2009. The Hoover Wilderness was the...

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...

by the Forest Service until the passage of the federal Wilderness Act of 1964. The Wilderness Act gave federal protection to these US Forest Service administrative...

original Wilderness Act of 1964. The Wilderness area surrounds the extremely popular Maroon Bells Scenic Area, which is a major access point for Wilderness travel...

The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (Pub. L. 93–622, 88 Stat. 2096) was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975. The Act designated 16 new...

were haunted. The original Jarbidge Wilderness was established by the 1964 Wilderness Act, and was the first wilderness area protected in Nevada. Expanded...

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. 98–322, 98 Stat. 253) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on June 19, 1984. The Act designated four...

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...

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...

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

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

by the Wilderness Act of 1964, and is managed by both the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. The Mount Charleston Wilderness Area consists...

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

Act 1963: Higher Education Facilities Act 1963: Vocational Education Act 1964: Civil Rights Act 1964: Urban Mass Transportation Act 1964: Wilderness Act...