EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Wilderness is a designation that seeks to protect remaining tracts of “relatively undisturbed” Forest Service land. The purpose is to maintain these lands as untouched and wild as possible.

Detailed explanation-2: -The benefits of wilderness are numerous. Wilderness provides so much more than a place to camp, hike or fish. Wilderness cleans our air and filters our water. It provides a home for wildlife and an economic driver for local communities.

Detailed explanation-3: -For an area to qualify as lands with wilderness characteristics, it must possess sufficient size, naturalness, and outstanding opportunities for either solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation. It may also possess supplemental values.

Detailed explanation-4: -A wilderness management plan is defined as a document that establishes the purposes for which the wilderness area was established and specifies the management approach for the protection and maintaining the wild and natural character of the wilderness area and its values and benefits.