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Wilderness Stewardship Principles of Wilderness Management

Wilderness Management Principles Four Cornerstones of Wilderness Stewardship Pajarita Wilderness

The Four Cornerstones of Wilderness Stewardship 1. Manage wilderness as a whole. “the wilderness resource…” 2. Preserve wildness and natural conditions. “preserve wilderness character…” 3. Protect wilderness benefits. “the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness” 4. Provide and use the minimum necessary. “except as necessary to meet the minimum requirements for the administration of the area as wilderness”

Wilderness Stewardship: IS the limiting of unnecessary and adverse human impacts and controls so that: – interference with nature is minimized – visitors are able to experience solitude or primitive and unconfined wilderness dependent recreation. IS NOT management in the sense of manipulation or improvement of the resource to: - maximize a particular human benefit - unnecessarily restrict human use.

purpose of wildernesspurpose of wilderness provide benefits of the wilderness resourceprovide benefits of the wilderness resource public purposespublic purposes special provisionsspecial provisions minimum requirementsminimum requirements “preserve wilderness character” Wilderness Stewardship is a Balancing Act

The Wilderness Act ‘for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes’ Miller Peak Wilderness