Wilderness Magazine,Fall 1985, Vol.49,#170 by Wilderness Society, PB Rare, B187

$17.23 $12.92 Buy It Now, $4.78 Shipping, 30-Day Returns, eBay Money Back Guarantee
Seller: bdesigns ✉️ (5,633) 100%, Location: San Andreas, California, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 183885638247 Wilderness Magazine,Fall 1985, Vol.49,#170 by Wilderness Society, PB Rare, B187. 3

Wilderness Magazine,Fall 1985, Vol.49,#170

by The Wilderness Society, Washington D.C.

Paperback, 1985 in very good to like new condition internal pages are clean unmarked and cover has slight corner rubbing. Book is filled with amazing black and white and color photographs from Ansel Adams, Carleton E. Watkins, William Bell,Edward Weston and many more.

The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on September 3, 1964. But to understand the genesis of the act, you have to go back another three decades, to the 1930s. During the Great Depression tens of thousands of Americans were put to work by the federal government in national parks and forests. They cleared trails, erected shelters, and laid down mile after mile of pavement. The Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park was opened in 1933, Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in 1939. The new highways opened up the parks to millions more visitors.

“The fashion is to barber and manicure wild America as smartly as the modern girl,” it said. “Our duty is clear.” In 1924, while working with the Forest Service in New Mexico, Leopold had persuaded his superiors to designate 755,000 acres of the Gila National Forest as roadless wilderness. The challenge was to persuade Congress to give that idea national scope.

The Wilderness Act went through more than 60 drafts before it finally passed. It created a new category of federal lands that could be overlaid on the old like a transparency on a map. Congress—and only Congress—could place land in the new category. Once designated as wilderness, a tract would be off-limits to commercial ventures like logging and new mines. It would be available for humans to explore, but not with mechanized vehicles. Horses and canoes are allowed; mountain bikes have been ruled out.

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt,” President Johnson said after signing the act, then “we must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”

  • Condition: Very Good
  • Publication Name: Wilderness Magazine

PicClick Insights - Wilderness Magazine,Fall 1985, Vol.49,#170 by Wilderness Society, PB Rare, B187 PicClick Exclusive

  •  Popularity - 2 watchers, 0.0 new watchers per day, 1,718 days for sale on eBay. Good amount watching. 0 sold, 1 available.
  •  Best Price -
  •  Seller - 5,633+ items sold. 0% negative feedback. Great seller with very good positive feedback and over 50 ratings.

People Also Loved PicClick Exclusive