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Conservation International - Wilderness Areas
The Hotspots Wilderness Areas The Amazon Congo Basin New Guinea North American Deserts Southern Africa Oceans & Seascapes Conservation Regions Related Links Communities Species South America Policy Africa & Madagascar Wilderness Areas Not everything is bad news on the frontiers of global conservation. Between troublesome spots, vast landscapes of near-pristine habitat still thrive.  We're working ...
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IMBA News: News Releases: List of Proposed California Wilderness Areas; Boxer Bill Coming (05-09-02)
Boxer Bill Coming (05-09-02) List of Proposed California Wilderness Areas; Boxer Bill Coming Action Alert Click here for more California Wilderness Campaign Information For Immediate Release 05-09-02 Contact: ... gathered extensive information regarding U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's plan to introduce a California Wilderness bill. While the bill has yet to be finalized or released to the public, IMBA ...
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AMC Works to Conserve Valuable Wilderness Areas in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
AMC Works to Conserve Valuable Wilderness Areas in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Join/Renew Give Store Search Where We Work Climate Change Land Protection Trail Work Air Quality Mountain Watch Rivers Wind Power CAN CONSERVATION > where we work Many of the Northeast's best landscapes are threatened. Join us in protecting these areas for future generations: Maine Woods Initiative — This project ...
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Appalachian Mountains chapter for Conservation International book on Wilderness
(Cervus elaphus), are less controversial and have been successfully reintroduced into Appalachian wilderness areas in the last few years. Human cultures Before the arrival of Europeans, numerous Iroquoian ... people in North America within a day's drive of the region's 511 protected areas, millions seek outdoor recreation in the Appalachians each year. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ...
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The Future of the Whites: Debate over Roadless Areas and Wilderness
George Pozzuto. To no ones surprise, expanding roadless and wilderness areas garnered the most discussion at a public hearing May 13th in Augusta, but officials ... objectives, for example improving the ecological integrity of a watershed. "Some [people] want more roadless areas" and to plant trees in old roads to turn them into forest quicker than nature ...
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Linville Gorge - The Wilderness Experience
You must travel by foot because no motorized vehicles are permitted in wilderness areas. You will meet and live with nature on its own terms, and become familiar with ... , the Grandfather Ranger District offers many other opportunities for a high quality outdoor experience. These areas are less publicized than Linville Gorge and are, therefore, not as heavily used. The Wilson Creek ...
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NCMC Conservation News - A Bottom Up Approach for Designating Marine Reserves, or Marine Protected Areas, as a Fishery Management Tool
It is wrong to perceive it as simply establishing areas where all forms of fishing are prohibited. The National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC) believes ... fishing per se. Indeed, while it is true that most human activities are excluded from wilderness areas, including all commercial enterprises and development, it is only those that threaten their integrity. ...
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Wilderness and Roadless Areas on the Colorado Plateau
Just prior to World War II much of the region, particularly the central Plateau's isolated ... Area Review and Evaluation" (RARE) studies in the 1970s in an attempt to catalogue possible wilderness areas on National Forest lands. The first RARE study was widely criticized for its inadequacy ...
www.cpluhna.nau.edu

EcoEarth.Info Environment Links: Land/Wilderness
California's remaining wildlands, working for the passage of legislation designating new wilderness areas and wild and scenic rivers in California Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It Campaign for ... Club BC http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/ (2 votes) works to preserve B.C.s imperilled wilderness and wildlife, and to ensure that B.C. is a global leader when it comes to ...
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NRDC: Wilderness Preservation: In Brief
Refuge 101: Fact Sheets Fact SheetGet informed about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's extraordinary wilderness and wildlife, the damage oil development has caused in neighboring areas of Alaska's North Slope, and better ways we can meet our energy needs.What is a Biosphere Reserve? Fact SheetThese nature preserves balance biological and ...
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