Wilderness Conservation

Programs that are responsible for administering the federal Wilderness Act which authorizes the acquisition, preservation and management of designated "wilderness areas" through a National Wilderness Preservation System which protects those lands in a manner that leaves them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness. Wilderness areas are defined as "areas where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain". Also included are other public and private programs that preserve and protect wilderness area.