Interpreting the Wilderness Act of 1964

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review

Volume

17

Issue

3

Publication Date

Summer 6-1-2010

First Page

492

Last Page

535

Abstract

The Wilderness Act of 1964 includes a definition of wilderness. The first sentence in the definition is probably the most frequently quoted sentence from the Act:

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.1

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