Wilderness Act
Year the Wilderness Act was signed
1964
Agency that manages the most wilderness acres.
What is the National Park Service? (44,346,275 acres)
Largest wilderness area in Colorado
What is the Weminuche Wilderness? (Second largest is the Flat Tops)
Number of States without designated Wilderness
Largest wilderness area in R2
What is Washakie Wilderness (WY)
Federal land management agency that was not included in the Wilderness Act
What is the Bureau of Land Management. (in 1976 the Federal Lands Policy Management Act (FLPMA) made provisions that the Wilderness Act would also apply to BLM.
Smallest wilderness area in R2
What is Soldier Creek Wilderness in Nebraska? (7,802 acres)
Amount of land (acres) designated as wilderness in 1964
Percentage of the entire United States currently protected as wilderness.
What is 5% (an area slightly larger than the state of California)? Because Alaska contains just over half of America's wilderness, only about 2.7% of the contiguous United States (an area about the size of Minnesota) is protected as wilderness.
Known as the "Cradle of Wilderness"?
What is the Flat Tops Wilderness