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 * Wilderness** is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity. But what does //significantly modified// mean?

Wikipedia
[|Wilderness]

Planeta.com
http://planeta.com/wilderness http://planeta.com/wilderness-notebook/

Headlines
[|Nature needs to be taken seriously - protecting our wild places is not an optional add-on] [|Fifty Years Ago, the First Move to Save U.S. Wilderness] [|National Wilderness Month] [|Rewilding the World] [|What is wilderness - National Geographic Adventure Blog]

Quotes
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

The idea of wilderness needs no defence. It only needs more defenders. - Edward Abbey

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity. - John Muir

I believe this need of wilderness is inherent in most of us, even those seemingly farthest removed. - Sigurd Olson

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Wilderness stewardship] [|wilderness.net] http://roadfree.org

Wilderness Act
On September 3, 1964, the U.S. Congress passed into Public Law the Wilderness Act “To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes”. This law was established “In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions…” [Public Law 88-577].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Act http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/legisact https://twitter.com/wild50th http://letstalknevada.com/celebrating-49-years-of-the-wilderness-act

Flipboard
[|Wilderness Travel]

Google+
[|Wildlife Traveller]

Buzzword Bingo

 * backcountry** - biodiversity - nature - parks - **wilderness** - wildlife