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2. Desired Character / Need for Change What are we trying to protect?

3. Desired Character Tells you where you want to end up. Without a clear and specific statement of desired wilderness character, how will you know when you have arrived?

4. Purpose:  Define wilderness character for area  Prevent management by default  Define what will be achieved in the future Process:  Identify role of the Wilderness in regional or national context  Define strategic position for this Wilderness on spectrum of wildness  Develop descriptions of desired character Product:  Description of desired character (strategic position) Desired Character

5. South Slope Denali WildNot so Wild Upper KahiltnaCathedral SpiresLower Ruth Cathedral Spires Upper Kahiltna Lower Ruth Wilderness Continuum

6. Strategic Wilderness position Most Wild Least Wild Alseck Selway Middle Fork Tributaries Middle Fork Salmon Hells Canyon Yacobi Togiak Frank Church Bob Marshall Boundary Waters Wisconsin Islands

7. Desired wilderness character  Untrammeled: degree of modern human manipulation  Undeveloped: degree of human improvements  Natural: ecological integrity, air/water quality  Solitude/primitive-unconfined recreation: degree of solitude,primitive and unconfined recreation, challenge, self-reliance…

8. Key Points Tier to area purpose and significance Prescriptive Qualitative Meaningful for area Dynamic

10. Are GYA Wildlands important to Americans?  Largest outfitter-guide industry in nation  World-renowned fly-fishing destination  Naturalness/beauty, wildlife, large expanses of undeveloped land, cleanliness/purity of area are most important qualities GTNP visitors want to see preserved  Jackson Hole is 4 th largest market in world for wildlife art; world center for wildlife cinematographers  Landscape, environment (air/water quality), wildlife, and summer outdoor recreation are most important reasons people cite for moving to area and staying

11. Need for Change Sell the problem, not the solution

12. Process:  Threats analysis  Which issues/problems can be dismissed?  Which problems are most important?  What are consequences of doing nothing? Product:  Problem statement – what is the problem, why is it important, why does it need to be addressed now, what will happen if it not addressed Purpose:  Identify problems/threats  Focus effort Need for Change

13. INCREMENTAL CHANGE No trails or campsites 10-12 people per year Zoned as pristine Valhalla Canyon, Grand Teton National Park

14. New trails beat in by use Numerous bare soil campsites 100 people per month, and growing INCREMENTAL CHANGE Valhalla Canyon, Grand Teton National Park TEN YEARS LATER!

15. If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them with a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it” L.B. Johnson