How is wilderness managed?
Management (monitoring and controlling the use of wilderness) is required to safeguard the values that wilderness was established to preserve. Wilderness management, most often, is not the management of physical and biological resources but of the human activities affecting those resources. The Wilderness Act sets forth congressional policy regarding some aspects of wilderness management. But the everyday details are left to the federal agencies that manage wilderness. In 1992, The Wilderness Society in association with the US Forest Service published Keeping It Wild: A Citizen Guide to Wilderness Management . This handbook outlines the operative principles of wilderness management for managers and citizens.
