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How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

Posted 3/2/26

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places have been left alone for decades, in keeping with the 1964 Wilderness Act’s directive that they be “untrammeled by man.” […]

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