Is wilderness designation a new idea?
The tradition of protecting wilderness dates back almost 100 years to the country’s foremost conservationists-Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, to name a few-who recognized the need to set aside America’s wild places to preserve our watersheds, wildlife habitat and the great outdoors from the ever-growing spread of development and commercialization. The National Wilderness Preservation System however, began with the passage of The Wilderness Act in 1964.
