User:BlueCanoe/WA

The Wilderness Act of 1964 created the legal definiton of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres (37,000 square km) of federal land. The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness, the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964.

...an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.