ABSTRACT
Based on the proceedings of the First National Wilderness Management Workshop, this book is designed to serve as a guide to understanding and implementing the 1964 Wilderness Act. The contributors examine the major issues involved in administering the eighty million acres of federal land that constitute the National Wilderness Preservation System,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|15 pages
Charting New Directions
part 2|37 pages
Federal Lands— As Bureau Chiefs View Them
part 3|19 pages
The Citizen Role in Management
part 4|15 pages
Realities of Resource Conflict
part 5|25 pages
Managing Fire in Wilderness
part 6|12 pages
Wilderness and Wildlife
part 7|21 pages
One Wilderness System— East, West, Alaska
part 8|28 pages
Challenges of Access, Development, Outfitting
part 9|16 pages
Wilderness Research
part 10|15 pages
The Next Steps