People Protecting Wilderness For People: Celebrating 40 Years of the Wilderness Act

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People Protecting Wilderness For People: Celebrating 40 Years of the Wilderness Act

In reaction to the loss of wilderness was born a uniquely American idea: to deliberately preserve scenic wonders and expanses of wild nature as wilderness, with a motive of not losing the imprint of frontier wildness so formative and fundamental to American values.

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