When environmentalism first became popular during the first half of the 20th century, the focus was wilderness protection and wildlife preservation.
RUOs are also sometimes provided to businesses operating in areas acquired for wilderness protection.
Not all of those acres, of course, are worthy of permanent wilderness protection.
In exchange, it offers wilderness protection to about 220,000 acres.
The administration declared that it would end reviews of Western landholdings for new wilderness protection.
In their view, wilderness protection amounts to a land grab, putting potential timber or mining areas off limits.
If America had an extra $15 billion to spend on wilderness protection, it wouldn't be spent on this one sliver of land.
Foreman had been interested in environmental issues since childhood, and from 1971, he became involved with wilderness protection.
Understand the connection between wilderness protection and the development of tourism and recreation.
He is also an advocate for wilderness protection.