The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their...

signed the Wilderness Act on September 3, 1964, it created the National Wilderness Preservation System. The initial statutory wilderness areas, designated...

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...

designated wilderness areas of the National Wilderness Preservation System. These are the Porcupine Lake Wilderness and the Rainbow Lake Wilderness. The Nicolet...

Congress decides whether to designate them as wilderness and include in the National Wilderness Preservation System. On BLM lands, a WSA is a roadless area...

Yosemite National Park for example, is listed both as wilderness by the National Wilderness Preservation System, and as national park land by the National Park...

the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act led to the creation of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which protects 109 million...

Nez Perce National Forest. As part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, the Gospel Hump Wilderness is an area where human development and use...

Public Law 94-567, adding Pinnacles Wilderness and several others to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Although roads approach the park from...

administrative areas and created the National Wilderness Preservation System. [1] Timeline of wilderness areas from Forest History Society Gilligan, James...

National Forest. The wilderness was established in 1940. In 1964, it was included in the National Wilderness Preservation System. A boundary revision...

141 ha) within the Sierra National Forest and was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Elevations...

acres (160,000 ha) of wilderness in California, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming, to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Other sections of the...

Kings Canyon National Parks. There are six wilderness areas within Sequoia NF that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Some of these...

322 km2)—has been designated as wilderness areas and is protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest peak is Hawksbill...

the establishment of the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, protecting approximately 7,242 acres....

compromise in the Utah Wilderness Act of 1984. National Wilderness Preservation System List of U.S. Wilderness Areas Wilderness Act GNIS: Feature Detail...

400 acres (54 km2) have been part of the National Wilderness Preservation System since the System was created in 1964. It now includes 18,483 acres (74...

2008-06-30. "Wilderness Legislation: The Wilderness Act of 1964". The National Wilderness Preservation System. Wilderness.net. Retrieved 2006-08-16. Portals:...

Gulf Wilderness is a protected wilderness area encompassing the cirque of the Great Gulf, and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Established...

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

United States Forest Service. "Cucamonga Wilderness". Wilderness.net. "U.S. National Wilderness Preservation System Map". Wilderness.net. v t e v t e...

part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, the St. Marks Wilderness makes up 17,350 acres of the refuge. The Florida National Scenic Trail...

Service and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest elevation in the Brasstown Wilderness is the 4,784-foot (1,458 m) peak of...

Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness, a new component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It was introduced into the United States Senate during...

designated the Forrester Island Wilderness, with 2,832 acres (1,146 ha) in the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is part of the Gulf of Alaska...

Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest, Wovoka Wilderness was designated part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in December 2014. Totaling 49,018 acres...

of the Ottawa National Forest, and is currently being managed as a wilderness area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System by the U.S. Forest...

legal definition of wilderness and established the National Wilderness Preservation System. The Wilderness Act defines wilderness as "an area where the...

established by the Wilderness Act (Public Law 88-577) in 1964. The National Wilderness Preservation System originally created hundreds of wilderness zones within...