they are for the wilderness. There is a difference. But there must 

 be no compromise, or the whole concept of a primitive area 

 will be endangered. 



The Living Wilderness, official publication of the Wilderness 

 Society, is dedicated to the wilderness idea and offers much 

 information on the areas. Address: "The Living Wilderness," 

 1840 Mintwood Place, Washington 9, D. C. 



In most of the writing about Wild and Wilderness Areas you 

 will note a marked contrast with the usual tourist and resort 

 literature. There is always dignity, and frequently a curious 

 reserve. The writers aren't withholding anything, or even mak- 

 ing it hard to find. But they are guarding something big, and 

 as a result: 



"(You) can travel in the roughest, most rugged terrain in 

 America and experience the same emotion that the pioneer 

 explorers felt when they blazed the first trail across the seem- 

 ingly endless and formidable mountain ranges and deserts of 

 the West. From the cactus country of the Superstition Moun- 

 tains where the waterhole is the congregating place of all wild- 

 life to the big, rain-soaked Douglas fir forests of the Olympic, 

 the wilderness traveler can explore. . . . He can look off from the 

 cool crest of the Chiricahuas over the sun-baked desert into old 

 Mexico, or he can step across the Canadian border from the 

 rugged, snow-capped North Cascade. He can camp on the Con- 

 tinental Divide in the Popo Agie and look out over the Wyoming 

 prairie, or he can view the distant Pacific from his trail in the 

 Ventana." 



Those words from The Living Wilderness were written by 

 John Sicker, Chief, Division of Recreation and Lands, U. S. 

 Forest Service. There isn't a word about the marvelous hunting 

 and fishing. But there is more a feeling of the sweep and scope 

 of the wilderness, the altitudes, the forest depths, the majesty 

 of height and distance. It seems to explain what a group of 

 young men felt after their first trip into the great Selway- 

 Bitterroot Wilderness Area, when one of their party said: 



"We were in that country for nineteen days, and we came 

 out quiet." 



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