Our president has declared that Sept 2009 is Wilderness month in recognition of the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act! Forty-five years ago, President Johnson signed into law the Wilderness Act. Since then, it's ensured that more than 109 million acres have stayed wild nationwide.
New York created the Adirondack Park Forest Preserve way before the Federal Wilderness Act back in 1885 and passed the Forever Wild clause in our State Constitution "Article 14" in 1894. This is widely regarded as the blueprint for the federal wilderness Act.
Bob Marshall a native NY'er is also credited w/ helping to pass the federal wilderness act!!
We need wilderness because in the protection of wilderness is the salvation of the world!!
When whitey first set foot on our great nation a squirrel could scamper off the beach in NJ up through the dunes and climb into grand white pines and make his way all the way to the mighty Mississippi River w/out ever touching the ground...
It blows my mind how fast taker culture has drastically altered our planet.. Quite frankly I wish…
I was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And find out how she felt
In the mornin'
on the fields of green
In the homeland
we've never seen.
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/ind...rticle/10406-1
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_...ss-Month-2009/