Wilderness Preservation Act

On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, creating a wilderness system of 9 million acres set aside from development and providing a mechanism for additional acreage to be set aside. The Wilderness Act marked an ...

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