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R2 Wilderness Trivia
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Year the Wilderness Act was signed

1964

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Agency that manages the most wilderness acres. 

What is the National Park Service? (44,346,275 acres) 

100

Largest wilderness area in Colorado

What is the Weminuche Wilderness? (Second largest is the Flat Tops)

200

Number of States without designated Wilderness

What is six? (Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland) 
200

Largest wilderness area in R2

What is Washakie Wilderness (WY)

300

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. 

300

Smallest wilderness area in R2

What is Soldier Creek Wilderness in Nebraska? (7,802 acres)

400

Amount of land (acres) designated as wilderness in 1964

What is 9.1 million acres? 54 original wilderness areas, all Forest Service. 
400

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. 

400

Known as the "Cradle of Wilderness"?

What is the Flat Tops Wilderness