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Yosemile, Sequoia, Mount 

 Rainier — followed. By the 

 second decade of Ihe 

 Iwentieth century, a few 

 people began to realize 

 that our national forests 

 might also be valuable tor 

 something more than 

 timber. Tlie long road to 

 wilderness preservation 

 had begun. 



1917-Landscape 

 architect Frank Waugh's 

 survey of the recreational 

 potential of national 

 forests concludes that the 

 "enticing wildness' ol the 

 forests has "direct human 

 value' and should be given 

 parity with economic 

 considerations when 

 determining the forests' 

 future. 



191J-Forest planner 

 Arthur Carharl recom- 

 mends that the Trappers 

 Lake area in Colorado's 

 White River National 

 Forest not be devetoped 

 tor summer homes but be 

 allowed to remain wild. 

 Regional office approves 

 Cartiarfs plan. 



1924-Fofestef and noted 

 ecologist Aldo Leopold, 

 one of The Wilderness 

 Society's eight co- 

 founders, urges the 



Where's the 

 Wilderness? 



majority of the notion's 

 wilderness, 60 percent of 

 the system or S6.S million 

 acres, is in Alaska. 



Most of the rest, 40 percent of the 

 entire wilderness system, is in the 

 western states. Thiis, 95.3% of all 

 the protected wilderness in the 

 United States is in the 11 western 

 states or Alaska. Only 4.7% of the 

 nation's wilderness lies east of the 

 100th Meridian, and almost half 

 of that can be found in just two 

 areos: Everglades National Park in 

 Florida — the second largest 

 wilderness area in the lower 48 

 states — and Minnesota's 

 Boundary Waters Canoe Area. 



The Northeast has the smallest 

 amount of wilderness. In the 1 1 

 states from Maine to Maryland, 

 where nearly one-quorter of the 

 nation's population resides, there 

 is o total of only 205,574 acres of 

 wilderness. 



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