How does wilderness designation affect visitors?
Wilderness areas are places where humility and respect play a role in both individual and management activities. People can recreate in wilderness, though in most places individuals do so without mechanical transport. Visitors may hike, fish, camp, watch wildlife, photograph, or hunt (where legally authorized), ride horses or float rivers. Many visitors to public lands never enter a wilderness area, yet they enjoy wilderness as a scenic backdrop to developed areas and as a legacy they can pass on to their children.
