North to Coquina Lake in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area. 



None of this means that you are barred from Wild and 

 Wilderness Areas; from the finest hunting and fishing the 

 nation affords; from the wildest and most beautiful scenery; 

 from the joy of seeing our last true wilderness. It means, instead, 

 that you may regard this abundance as yours-a special privilege, 

 in which a special responsibility is implicit. 



From the beginning, and always, the Forest Service has faced 

 a strange, complex problem. In preserving the wilderness, it is 

 doing an immeasurable service to civilization. But in order to 

 do so, it must keep civilization out. If that is a paradox, the 

 results are a masterpiece. 



Forest Service directors found that the simplest control was 

 the most effective. They outlawed the wheel and the engine. 

 Cars are prohibited, motors and motorboats likewise. Thus com- 

 mercialism in all its forms is automatically excluded. The air- 

 plane is also prohibited except in a few areas where its use 



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