Private land holdings established.
Conservationists agitate against logging, motor use, fly-ins.
1943, Conservationists IWLA establishes fund to purchase land in wilderness, buys number of resorts and turns them over to the Federal Government. Petitions Congress to pass bill to acquire land in wilderness. Build roads and even a railroad to Forest Center. 1948, Congress Passes Thye-Blatnik Act. Another key bill.