Wilderness at 50 Lewis and Clark Law School Garry Oye Chief of Wilderness Stewardship National Park Service Portland, Oregon April 11, 2014
Northern Rockies California Washington DC Las Vegas
Early Wilderness Advocates Carhart…Leopold… …Marshall…Zahniser…Murie
National Wilderness Preservation System 109 million acres – 44 million hectares National Park Wilderness - 61 units 44 million acres – 18 million hectares
America’s Wilderness in National Park Units
Death Valley - California
Gates of Arctic - Alaska
Guadalupe Mountains- Texas
Theodore Roosevelt - ND
Gulf Islands - Mississippi
North Cascades - WA
Everglades - Florida
Haleakala - Hawaii
Shenandoah - Virginia
Rocky Mountain - Colorado
1964 Wilderness Act Section 4(C): “no commercial enterprise” Section 4(D)6: “Commercial services may be performed... to the extent necessary for activities which are proper for realizing the recreational or other wilderness purposes of the areas.”
50 Years Later… 2014 Examples:
50 Years Later… 2014 Examples:
New Interest - Old Proposals Glacier – Montana Yellowstone/Grand Teton – Wyoming Grand Canyon – Arizona Big Bend – Texas Great Smoky Mtns – Tennessee/N. Carolina Crater Lake – Oregon Arches/Canyonlands – Utah Big Cypress/East Everglades – Florida Assateague Island - Maryland
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