His daughter is now healthy, but the plant, like so many others, is now extinct. Wilderness and the life dependent on it are fragile entities. They can be destroyed in a matter of years, if not days. Legislative protection is the surest way to maintain a wilderness reserve on our hungry and crowded planet. When wilderness is protected, watershed is protected.
Biological diversity is protected.
Game is protected. The proper functioning of a natural system is protected. Our quality of life is protected. The scientific arguments for wilderness seem irrefutable. I honestly don't think it will.