Question: Which president, numerically, signed the Eastern Wilderness Areas act into law?

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White Goat Wilderness Area: The White Goat Wilderness Area is a provincially designated wilderness area in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta.  It was established in 1961 and it, as one of the three wilderness areas of Alberta, has the strictest form of government protection available in Canada.  All development is forbidden and only travel by foot is permitted.  Hunting and fishing are not allowed.  The other two wilderness areas are Ghost River Wilderness Area and Siffleur Wilderness Area and together the three areas total 249548.80 acres .

List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas: List of wilderness areas designated by U.S. state and tribal governments.  Eight states had designated wilderness programs in 2002 while some other states had designated wildernesses.  In 2002, the 9 state programs had 74 wilderness areas with a total protected area of 2,668,903 acres (10,800.7 km²).  Florida had had 10 wilderness areas but their authorizing legislation was repealed in 1989.

Gerald Ford: Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon.  Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew.  He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, and consequently the only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office.  Before his appointment to the vice presidency, Ford served 25 years as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader.

Public Law 94-567: Public Law 94-567 is a 1976 Federal law that established a number of new designated Wilderness Areas on National Park Service lands.  Signed into law by President Gerald Ford on October 20, 1976, the new statute added almost 900,000 acres of wilderness into the National Wilderness Preservation System.  While the majority of designated Wilderness Areas at the time were located in National Forests, this was one of the first laws to formally establish wilderness areas in National Parks and Monuments.

Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978: Endangered American Wilderness Act (Public Law 95-237) is a Federal law, enacted in 1978, that established ten new designated Wilderness Areas in the National Forests of several Western states.  Sponsored by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall, the law added approximately 400,000 thousand acres of wilderness in California, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming, to the National Wilderness Preservation System.  Other sections of the law established three new Wilderness Areas in Oregon and added additional acreage to two existing areas, and ordered the creation of a committee to develop a management plan for 330,000 acres of public land along the Salmon River in Idaho known as the Gospel-Hump area.

Siffleur Wilderness Area: The Siffleur Wilderness Area is a provincially designated wilderness area in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta.  It was established in 1961 and it, as one of the three wilderness areas of Alberta, has the strictest form of government protection available in Canada.  All development is forbidden and only travel by foot is permitted.  Hunting and fishing are not allowed.  The other two wilderness areas are White Goat Wilderness Area and Ghost River Wilderness Area and together the three areas total 249548.80 acres .

Eastern Wilderness Act: The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act (Pub.L.  93–622 , 88 Stat.  2096 , enacted  03, 1975 ) was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975.  Built upon the 1964 Wilderness Act, which was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Act designated 16 new wilderness areas in the Eastern United States, including 207000 acre of wilderness on national lands in 13 states.  Although it was originally untitled, the bill signed by Ford has come to be known as the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act.

List of Wilderness Areas in the Adirondack Park: This is a list of designated wilderness areas within the Adirondack Park in the Adirondack Mountains, and part of the New York Forest Preserve.  Wilderness area account for 46% of the area of the park which is not private property.  They are managed like federal wilderness areas.  These areas are far more affected by nature than humanity, to the extent that the latter is practically unnoticeable, for example virgin forest.  No powered vehicles are allowed in wilderness areas.

National Wilderness Preservation System: The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition.  Activity on formally designated wilderness areas is coordinated by the National Wilderness Preservation System.  Wilderness areas are managed by four federal land management agencies: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.  The term "wilderness" is defined as "an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain" and "an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions."  As of 2015, there are 765 designated wilderness areas, totaling 109,129,657 acre , or about 4.5% of the area of the United States.

New Mexico Wilderness Act of 1980: New Mexico Wilderness Act of 1980, Public Law 96-550, is a U.S. federal law that authorized the establishment of a number of designated Wilderness Areas on National Forest land in New Mexico.  The law also added additional lands to four existing Wilderness Areas in New Mexico, and named several Forest areas for study as potential Wilderness Areas.  The law also created two new National Park Service units, Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Salinas National Monument, from existing NPS lands.  By means of this law approximately 400,000 acres of forest land were designated as Wilderness Areas, as described by the Wilderness Act of 1964, and approximately 75,000 additional acres were designated as Wilderness Study Areas for possible future inclusion in the Wilderness program.

Supporting paragraphs: Eastern Wilderness Act Gerald Ford
Answer: 38th