January 2017
What's in a name?
Wilderness trivia: How many wilderness areas have been renamed? Answer: 10, the latest being the Olympic Wilderness, which was renamed last month as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness to honor the former Washington State Governor and Senator nicknamed "Straight Arrow."
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Wilderness.net is a public wilderness information website formed in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute--the federal government's wilderness training and research arms, respectively--and the College of Forestry and Conservation's Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana.