What is a Wilderness?
According to the Wilderness Act of 1964, wilderness areas are “where earth and its community of life remains untrammeled, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain”. Wilderness Protection will never be gained simply by issuing a set of rules and regulations. It must come with love and understanding of the land. Wilderness Protection is a personal ethic. Some mark is left in Wilderness each time we visit, but each of us can make sure this mark is a small one. Minimum impact or no trace camping should be considered common sense behavior in the backcountry.
Related Questions
- Is it fair to say that, as a human, you enjoy the chaos and beauty of wilderness and nature, but not enough to prefer it over right angles, sterilized order, pathological security and rigorous predictability?
- How is wilderness different from other federal public lands?
- How does wilderness designation in a park affect people?
