BWCA turns 40

Timeline

Thanks for the info.

Many thanks for those on the wilderness issue on both sides of this hot issue back in the day. Many sacrifices were made by both sides. If this never happened it would be likely that there would be roads and cottages and private property everywhere.
Forever grateful

dr bob

Not unless the Feds had changed their minds about the withdrawal of 1,159,700 acres of that land from the US land office, which took place between 1902 to 1908, that prevented it from being sold and settled in the first place. That land would have had to be sold on the open market at some point between then and the Wilderness Act. The wilderness designation just changed how a portion of the federal lands would be used.

Great stuff !! thanks for sharing , cant believe there's only 3 comments on this post .
never knew about the name change in 1958 . and in 1975 we have to thank Don fraser .

Wilderness Act

They are good articles and interesting to remember how it almost didn’t happen. Maybe not much discussion is happening because people don’t want to resurrect any of the old arguments over motors or current ones over mining. But I do like thinking about how special the BW is to me.

DrBobDerrig: "Many thanks for those on the wilderness issue on both sides of this hot issue back in the day. Many sacrifices were made by both sides. If this never happened it would be likely that there would be roads and cottages and private property everywhere.
Forever grateful


dr bob"

Me too. When I think of Jimmy Carter I think of someone whom was a better man and humanitarian than politician. (Hmmm, maybe it's impossible to even BE a good man AND a good politician?) But, those of us whom enjoy the BWCAW will be forever in his debt!