Perspectives on Wilderness Character Monitoring: The Wilderness Policy Council
Fifteen years ago, the interagency Wilderness Policy Council (WPC) began discussing the need for an interagency strategy to monitor trends in wilderness character.
The Legal Meaning of Wilderness Character
The Wilderness Act commands that wilderness areas be managed for “the preservation of their wilderness character”
Keeping It Wild 2: Reviewing the Interagency Wilderness Character Monitoring Strategy
The 1964 Wilderness Act’s Statement of Policy, Section 2(a) states that wilderness areas “shall be administered… so as to provide for the protection
Wilderness, Wildness, and Wilderness Character
In any reflection on my love for wilderness, it is the realization that whenever I find myself in wilderness, the prevailing influence that I sense so deeply is the wildness of the place.
Forward Wilderness
Following the celebration of the first 50 years of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS), we have put away the reusable champagne glasses and…