Where did the idea of wilderness come from?
There is a long history of the land protection ethic in America. In the 1850s President Grant set aside land in Yosemite that would become Yosemite National Park. In 1872, Yellowstone was made the first National Park. The first bill to create a National Wilderness Preservation System was introduced in 1956. The 1964 wilderness Act took eight years, eighteen hearings, and sixty-six revisions to become law.
