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)
Name of the President who signed the Wilderness Act.
Agency that manages the most wilderness areas.
What is the Forest Service (448)
Number of States without designated Wilderness
Largest wilderness area in Wyoming.
What is Washakie Wilderness (693,934)
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.
The most frequently visited unit in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota
Smallest wilderness area in R2
What is Soldier Creek Wilderness in Nebraska? (7,802 acres)
Amount of land (acres) designated as wilderness in 1964
What is 9.1 million acres? 54 original wilderness areas, all Forest Service.
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.
Area in Colorado known as the "Cradle of Wilderness"?
What is the Flat Tops Wilderness
Name one of the original wilderness areas designated in 1964.
Total number of areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
What is 806?
Name one Wilderness area designated in 1964.
47 areas