The Obama administration established America’s Great Outdoors to hear Americans’ best ideas for developing a new conservation strategy. The Wilderness Society offered comments to the administration in September 2010 that outline our vision for a successful America's Great Outdoors initiative.
The Wilderness Society submitted a statement for the record on the role of Wilderness designations in providing jobs and economic benefits to rural communities before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the House Natural Resources Committee.
This bar graph breaks down the number of acres designated as Wilderness by each Congress since the Wilderness Act was enacted in 1964 through the end of the 110th Congress in 2008.
