Talk:National Wilderness Preservation System

message: Perhaps there should be mention of the fact that, according to NPS policy, any areas that are recommended for Wilderness Preservation Status must be treated as Wilderness until congress votes Yes or No on the recommendation. 
"The National Park Service will take no action that would diminish the wilderness eligibility of an area possessing wilderness characteristics until the legislative process of wilderness designation has been completed. Until that time, management decisions will be made in expectation of eventual wilderness designation. This policy also applies to potential wilderness, requiring it to be managed as wilderness to the extent that existing nonconforming conditions allow." Section 6.3.1  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.85.222.157 (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Recommended Wilderness Areas

message: You did an excellent job expanding on the intro of the article. I thought you made it very informative without over doing it by keeping it short and to the point. You added a lot of very interesting things under the history, such as The Great Swamp in New Jersey being the first designated wilderness refuge in the US and that the Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness is the newest one to be protected by this act. The “Leave No Trace” policy was a great thing to add because I don’t think many people would have even considered some of those rules as helping preserve the areas. You did a great job stating which states had the highest number of preserves, but when it was based on acreage it changed the list. I thought that was interesting. Adding all of the laws and policies was also very informative. You greatly improved the page overall by covering a lot of topics and expanding on others. Jenniferdanielle418 (talk) 17:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Expanding Introduction

message: The Wilderness Act actually does NOT prohibit bicycling in Wilderness Areas, though bicycling is usually not allowed by regional managers. This is the finding of a recent extensive report as discussed below:
*Original report, Ted Stroll (PDF)
*Wilderness Act Does Not Ban Mountain Biking - New West Network, and especially the author of the reports' response to commenters.
I am interested in other Wikipedians thoughts on how to handle this in this article, as the article currently states rather bluntly "In general, the law prohibits logging, mining, roads, mechanized vehicles (including bicycles), and other forms of development." -the dharma bum 21:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding of the wilderness act is that is does not allow bicycles on wilderness lands. The links you provided show that this is being contested, but not that the law has been changed. My experience with the National Park Service leads me to believe that indeed, no moutain bikes or any bicycles were allowed in designated wilderness zones. It may be that some regions do permit it, but the law written in 1964 forbid such activity. I also quickly saw that one of the links claims that other mechanical equipment is allowed in wilderness...the only time I can thing that this is the case is to deal with forest fires and their aftermath, or if there is a search and rescue underway. I'm not saying that the land management agencies don't themselves violate the law, just that it is a fineable offense to ride bikes in wilderness zones...how stringently it is enforced is the big question.--MONGO 01:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: MONGO, thanks for the response. After rereading all the documents, I would say that issue hasn't changed and I don't think any wilderness area effectively allows mountain biking either. It's probably worth keeping an eye on. - the dharma bum 19:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not opposed to mountain bikes there as they allow horses and either one is likely to be ridden off trail. But I do think that the law is pretty specific to bicycles as a form of "motorized transport". The fight between the mountain biking enthusiasts and the environmentalists is oftentimes a strange struggle, as on almost every other point, mountain bikers would be environmentalists for the most part. Happy editing!--MONGO 01:32, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bicycles in the wilderness

message: Should the California Wilderness Act of 1984 and the most recent expansion, the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act be added to this article? or is that too state-specific? Marcia Wright (talk) 00:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion of wilderness areas in California 

message: This page is in contradiction with this website in reference to the largest wilderness area in the continental US: 
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=fastfacts&error=404
I'm new to wikipedia and don't know what the procedure is on this... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.91.144.12 (talk) 01:14, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction in article

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