But this is a very simple issue: chainsaws are not allowed except under extremely limited circumstances.

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Margaret Murie

#ArticExplorer
#ArticNationalWildlifeRefuge
#Adventurer
#Conservationist
#Naturalist
#WildernessAct
#WyrdWomen

Live Wild Mardy Murie ’23 fought to create the Arctic National Wildlife Range.

Margaret Thomas “Mardy” Murie was a naturalist, author, adventurer, and conservationist instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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#ArticNationalWildlifeRefuge
#Adventurer
#Conservationist
#Naturalist
#WildernessAct
#WyrdWomen

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota
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📷 S. Tomas

Death Valley National Park in California contains one of the largest protected wilderness areas in the United States. National Park Service/E. Letterman

[2/5] Créée par le #WildernessAct de 1964 la #wilderness recouvre 110 millions d’acres, surtout dans l’Ouest. Ces espaces doivent rester "untrammeled by man". En mai 2025 un projet de loi propose de vendre des terres fédérales, dont certaines protégées, pour construire du logement. #HGGSP #geography

📍 Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness

The 1964 Wilderness Act gave us protected places like this—but they’re not guaranteed.


⚠️ Support groups that defend wild lands & advocate for access.
Wilderness is a gift—let’s keep it that way.

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Lunch at Beaver Lake I happened upon this secluded spot off a secluded trail and enjoyed a lunch with the ducks (not shown). Beaver Basin Wilderness, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

#BeaverLake in #BeaverBasin #Wilderness, #PicturedRocks #NationalLakeshore, #UpperPeninsula, #Michigan.

Everyone I met #backpacking stayed on the #ShorelineTrail, so exploring inland trails provided "outstanding opportunities for solitude" per #WildernessAct.

#photography #nature
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Golden aspen groves in a sparsely timbered basin with mountain summits and ridges stretching into the distance under a pink twilight sky

Alternating bands of warm light and shadow on a snowy mountain range, alluvial slope and dry lakebed

Warm pinkish-orange sunrise light striking small trees in a landscape of steeply tilted rock strata high on a mountain side

Light and shadow play on rocky walls of a dramatic mountain canyon with snow visible on the higher peaks

Happy 35th birthday to these Nevada Wilderness Areas (among others): Table Mountain, Quinn Canyon, Currant Mountain, Arc Dome.

#nevada #wildernessact #publiclands #landscapephotography #greatbasin

Please, no diamonds for the Wilderness Act’s 60th anniversary • South Dakota Searchlight The 60-year-old Wilderness Act is exceptional. It proactively protects ecosystems by minimizing human interference.

"Without restraint, wilderness dies."

Commentary on the 60th anniversary of the #WildernessAct:

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/09/05/ple…

#onthisday, 60 years ago, the #wildernessact was passed, codifying a law that would come to protect some of the most stunning landscapes found in the National Park Service. #FindYourPark

60 years later, the Wilderness Act still demands our restraint • South Dakota Searchlight Thanks to the Wilderness Act, in the wildest parts of America, humans come second. What comes first is the land, its water and its wildlife.

Sixty years after the passage of the #WildernessAct, "some of us are tempted to relax recreational restrictions in wilderness. That would miss the point."

Commentary:

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/02/22/60-…