How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone

By: Clare Boerigter

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: March 3, 2026

Words: 1,349

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago


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More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places have been left alone for decades, in keeping with the 1964 Wilderness Act’s directive that they be “untrammeled by man.”

But in a time when lands are experiencing the effects of climate change and people …

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