Gaylord A. Nelson Wilderness, Wisconsin
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Announcements
- The University of Montana's Wilderness Management Distance Education Program now offers graduate certification in wilderness management.
- Order wilderness information materials and education products online from the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center.
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Wilderness and Environmental News
On 3/30/09 President Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Public law 111-11) into law. This law designates 52 new wilderness areas and adds acreage to 26 existing areas, a total addition to the NWPS of over 2 million acres. Although they are not yet pictured on Wilderness.net's maps, you can view a list of these areas.Obama boosts area's wilderness inventory
Wednesday, May 6 9:26 AM
With placid coastal lagoons and pine-covered mountains, and everything in between, this region has some of the most diverse and best protected areas in the United States in spite of how much has been paved over for malls and houses.
Well more than 1 million acres of natural lands in San Diego and Riverside counties have enjoyed protection from roads, development, motorized vehicles, mining and logging for years.
Out of the wildernessTuesday, May 5 10:17 AM
For years, it looked as though Congressman Mike Simpson's central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act would break the Gem State's wilderness logjam.
Sen. Mike Crapo, however, beat Simpson to the punch.
Congress voted in March to protect more than 500,000 acres in the Owyhee Canyonlands and 315 miles of the area's rivers.
Crapo's Owyhee initiative was Idaho's first wilderness designation since 1980 and the Frank Church River of No Return.
But Crapo's success may provide the model for Simpson.
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