This lake is a large freshwater fishery with a wilderness designation.

Access is restricted because of the wilderness designation.

"Why does wilderness designation include areas rich in minerals?"

It has been excluded from wilderness designation specifically because of its mineral potential.

Ronald Reagan 1985 address to Congress requesting wilderness designation of the river.

The area was designated a scenic area as an alternative to federal wilderness designation.

The County Commission received 1,572 comments on the subject, with 75% of them favoring wilderness designation.

I encourage you to review the information below and learn the important specifics of my legislation and what wilderness designation means.

A total of 48% of the total area within the forest has a wilderness designation.

The wilderness designation provides a much higher level of land protection and prohibits any alterations by man to the resource.