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2 unusual facts about wilderness area


Wilderness area

Activities on the margins of specific wilderness areas, such as fire suppression and the interruption of animal migration also affect the interior of wildernesses.

There are seven wilderness areas in New Zealand as defined by the National Parks Act 1980 and the Conservation Act 1987 that fall well within the IUCN definition.


Bald Knob Cross

The Bald Knob Cross adjoins the Bald Knob Wilderness, a federally designated U.S. wilderness area covering the western slope of the mountain which the cross surmounts.

Cache National Forest

There are two officially designated wilderness areas within the former Cache National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

John Patrick Williams

Pat Williams played a pivotal role in the preservation of Wilderness Areas, aiming to protect current wilderness from the Wilderness Act of 1964 and extend the Act to cover further National Forest lands.


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Aldo Leopold Wilderness

The Wilderness area has fauna typical of the American Southwest: Mule deer, Elk, Wild Turkey, Peccary, Black bear and Cougar.

Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall Wilderness, a wilderness area in Western Montana, named for the above

Chumash

Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness

While designation as a wilderness area in the United States generally requires the prohibition of any motorized machinery, the use of jetboats (On the Main Fork of the Salmon River) and several airstrips are permitted in this wilderness as grandfathered existing uses before the wilderness was designated.

Glen Canyon Dam

Led by David Brower, the environmental organization Sierra Club fought a protracted battle against the Bureau of Reclamation, on the basis that "building the dam would not only destroy a unique wilderness area, but would set a terrible precedent for exploiting resources in America's national parks and monuments".

La Garita Wilderness

One entrance to the wilderness area is via Forest Road 787 from Saguache Park and Cochetopa Park off State Highway 114 west of Saguache, Colorado.

Lucy Horodny

In her one term in the Legislative Assembly, she was a strong advocate for environmental causes, both inside the ACT, such as the preservation of the Black Mountain area (which had been threatened by the Gungahlin Drive Extension), and outside, such as her attempts to save Tasmania's environmentally sensitive Tarkine wilderness area from logging and development.

McCullough Range

Some of the northern part of the range is designated as the North McCullough Wilderness Area by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management while the some of the southern part of the range is similarly designated as the South McCullough Wilderness Area.

Monument Rocks

Monument Rock Wilderness, a wilderness area within the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.

Nantahala

The Southern Nantahala Wilderness, a federally preserved wilderness area in Georgia and North Carolina in the United States

Pagosa Springs, Colorado

The town is located in the upper San Juan Basin, surrounded by the 3 million acre (12,000 km²) San Juan National Forest, and adjacent to the largest wilderness area in the state of Colorado, the Weminuche Wilderness.

Paula Jean Welden

Due to the strangeness of these events, Vermont broadcaster and author Joseph A. Citro dubbed the wilderness area northeast of Bennington "the Bennington Triangle" – a reference to unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Robert J. Lagomarsino

He authored legislation which created the Channel Islands National Park, the Dick Smith Wilderness Area, the Los Padres National Forest, and co-authored the Drug War Bond Act and the Violent Crime and Drug Control Act.

Senior Scout Adventure

In 1985, permission was obtained from private landowners in the Cederberg to put activity centres on their land and the Department of Forestry gave permission for scouts to hike and camp in the wilderness area.

After the 1974 adventure the Cederberg was declared a wilderness area and activity centres were no longer allowed to be in the same location for more than 24 hours due to the new forestry rules.

Shellback

Shellback Wilderness, White Pine County, Nevada, U.S., wilderness area

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park

These parks and the adjacent Bell Mountain Wilderness Area are part of a large wilderness area that is very popular with hikers and backpackers and includes the Taum Sauk section of the Ozark Trail.

Tobeatic Game Reserve

The Tobeatic Wilderness Area is made up of several geological units including: the Goldenville Formation, the Halifax Formation, and Middle to Late Devonian biotite monzogranite and leucomonzogranite.

White Wilderness

White Mountain Wilderness, a protected wilderness area within the Lincoln National Forest

Whiteshell Provincial Park

The historic Winnipeg River and the Whiteshell River are the main rivers that run through this remote park and wilderness area.