ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses volunteer grass-roots wilderness conservationists who do not and cannot concur with the oft-expressed idea that all the essential wilderness or "the crown jewels" have already been classified. Legislation is pending in Congress relative to designation of wilderness in twenty-four states, including the four states of the Pacific Northwest. She mentions the eleventh Northwest Wilderness Conference held in Seattle in April 1984, a fitting celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. It was not a "balanced" conference, but a gung-ho wilderness advocacy rendezvous. Despite the urgency of the allocation issue, citizen organizations do have concerns and interests in how to manage the remnants of this continent's wilderness or wild lands, whether they'recapital "W" or small "w." The remnants of wilderness are much smaller today, which accounts for the need of thinking things through, of weighing options, alternatives, causes and effects.
