num_pages: 171
description: The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness is a guide to knowing Oregon's most popular wilderness as wilderness. In three chapters, the book explains how the idea of wilderness preservation evolved in America and resulted in legal protection of the Three Sisters Wilderness and more than 650 other units of the National Wilderness Preservation System, interprets the natural and cultural history of this wilderness, and explains application of the concept to management of this wilderness by the U.S. Forest Service.
language: English
title: The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness
titlecomplete: The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness
publisher: Wilderness Associates