The phrase "a designated wilderness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an area that has been officially set aside for preservation and protection of its natural state.
Example: "The government has declared this area a designated wilderness to protect its unique ecosystem from development."
Alternatives: "an officially designated wilderness" or "a protected wilderness area".
Environmentalists say it would be the first road built through a designated wilderness area in 34 years, and thus a terrible precedent.
And getting there is half the fun: You can travel into and across a designated Wilderness area on foot or on horseback only, and any kind of mechanized or motorized equipment or transport is forbidden.
Approximately 95% of the park is a designated wilderness area.
Glacier Bay is a homeland, a living laboratory, a national park, a designated wilderness, a biosphere reserve, and a world heritage site.
And that mining is illegal in a federally designated wilderness.
The national recreation area is largely within a federally designated wilderness area centred on the isolated Stehekin River valley and is inaccessible by road.
An estuary known as Drakes Estero, where the oyster operation has existed for the last 40 years, will become a federally designated wilderness area.
This is because the park is also a federally designated wilderness area, where, under federal law, "the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain".
Kevin Lunny, Drakes Bay Oyster Company's former proprietor believed that the success of his farm could overcome the 1964 Wilderness Act that designated wilderness as a place "untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain".
But sea critters weren't the only inhabitants of that designated wilderness area; a privately-owned commercial oyster company was operating with a non-renewable, 40-year permit in the Drakes Bay estuary on land bought and paid for by American taxpayers for inclusion in the park.
This area, largely made up of National Wildlife Refuges and designated Wilderness areas, is a major hot point for domestic and foreign environmentalists.
