Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act or Loi on protection of nature of 1964 was written by Howard Zahniser of the Wilderness Society (Company for protection of nature). It legally defines the natural in the the United States and protected 37.000 km ² from grounds belonging to the federal government. It is the result of a long fight aiming at protecting nature in the USA, the Wilderness Act was ratified by President Lyndon B. Johnson the September 3rd 1964.
The Wilderness Act is known for its brief and poetic definition of nature:
… a place where the ground and its community of life are not blocked by the man, where the man himself is only one visitor of passage.
When the Congrès accepted it and that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act on September 3rd, 1964, was created the National Wilderness Preservation System (Protection service of nature). The first natural surfaces thus protected by the law included/understood 37.000 km ² national forests in the USA which were then protected only by administrative Décret S.
Today
Today the Wilderness System includes/understands more than 429000 km ² of federal territory managed by four agencies, as indicated in the table below.
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complete Text of the '' Wilderness Act ''
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