What is the Wilderness Act of 1964?
The Wilderness Act is a law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The Wilderness act created the National Wilderness Preservation System “to be composed of federally owned areas designated by Congress as wilderness areas, and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment as wilderness ” The act states that A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. Another key section of the act stipulates that wilderness generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man s work substantially unnoticeable.
