(8) The congressional review of roadless areas
within National Forest System lands in the States
of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyo-
ming has identified areas which, on the basis of
their land form, ecosystem, associated fish and wild-
life, economic value, and location will help to fulfill
the role of the United States Forest Service to en-
sure a quality National Wilderness Preservation Sys-
tem. This review has identified other areas which
may contain outstanding values as national park and
preserves and wild and scenic rivers. This review has
also identified areas which may not possess out-
standing wilderness attributes and should not now
be designated as components of the National Wilder-
ness Preservation System, but which should be stud-
ied to determine their role in maintaining biological
diversity in the Northern Rockies.
(9) Many areas of National Forest System
lands have been damaged and their productivity re-
duced by unwise development practices which have
also impaired ecosystem function and biological di-
versity. The Island Park area adjacent to Yellow-
stone National Park contains large clear-cut areas
right up to the park boundary. Efforts should be
made to return these areas to their former ecological
health and native diversity by designating them as
National Wildland Restoration and Recovery areas.
These efforts seek to ensure that vital ecosystem
components are restored, especially in areas where
wildlife travel corridors and native fish and wildlife
populations have been damaged or eliminated, and
restoration efforts will seek to ensure and maintain
genetic interchange, biological diversity, and restora-
tion of native species diversity throughout the
Northern Rockies Bioregion.
(10) Federal agencies entrusted with managing
the Bioregion’s natural resources operate under con-
tradictory Congressional mandates, and thus are in
dissension over management policies which involve
common resources and major ecosystems.
(b) DESIGNATIONS.—The purposes of this Act are
to—
(1) designate certain National Forest System
lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington, and Wyoming as components of the
National Wilderness Preservation System;
(2) designate certain National Forest System
lands in the States of Montana, Oregon, and Idaho
as national park and preserve study areas;
(3) designate certain National Forest System
lands and watercourses in the States of Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Washington as components of
the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and as
Wild and Scenic River study areas;
(4) establish a pilot system of National
Wildland Restoration and Recovery Areas and a
Wildlands Recovery Corps to help restore biological
diversity and native species; and
(5) establish a system of biological connecting
corridors between the core ecosystems in the region.
(c) GENERAL PURPOSES.—The designations made by
this Act are made in order to—
(1) promote, perpetuate, and preserve the wil-
derness character of the land,
(2) protect watersheds and wildlife habitat, in-
cluding that of species protected under the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973,
(3) protect the ecological integrity and contigu-
ity of major wild land ecosystems and their inter-
connecting corridors identified by the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service, and other sources,
(4) protect and maintain biological and native
species diversity,
(5) promote and ensure interagency cooperation
in the implementation of integrated, holistic eco-
system 
management 
and 
protection 
of 
the
ecosystems and corridors covered by this Act,
(6) preserve scenic, historic, and cultural re-
sources,
(7) promote scientific research, primitive recre-
ation, solitude, physical and mental challenge, and
inspiration for the benefit of all the American peo-
ple,
(8) avoid the misinvestment of scarce capital in
lands of marginal timber value, and
(9) ensure that all resources on Federal lands
in the Northern Rockies Bioregion are managed on
an ecologically and economically sustainable basis.
SEC. 3. WILDERNESS.
(a) DESIGNATION AS WILDERNESS.—In furtherance
of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131–
1136), the following lands in the States of Idaho, Mon-
tana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming are hereby des-
ignated as wilderness and, therefore, as components of the
National Wilderness Preservation System:
(1) GREATER
GLACIER/CONTINENTAL
DIVIDE
ECOSYSTEM.—(A) The core of this region is Glacier
National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness,
America’s first Wilderness area. This ecosystem in-
cludes unique lands such as the Rocky Mountain
Front, where grizzlies still roam the prairies and
America’s largest bighorn sheep herd scales the
craggy peaks. The Swan and Mission mountain
ranges contain some of Montana’s largest old growth
forests and pristine bull trout and westslope cut-
throat trout spawning runs. The Rocky Mountain
Gray Wolf is making a comeback here, and the eco-
system is home to the largest grizzly population in
the lower 48.
(B)(i) In order to protect this unique eco-
system, the areas named in the table in clause (ii),
which together comprise approximately 1,256,175
acres as generally depicted on the maps with titles
corresponding to each such area and dated July 1,
1993, are hereby designated as wilderness. Each
such wilderness area shall either be incorporated
into the wilderness area indicated or shall be known
by the name given to it in such table, as specified
in such table. Each such map shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the Office of the
Chief of the Forest Service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.