Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most

From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife

In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activitie

The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in