Sentence examples for wilderness character from inspiring English sources

(1 Area also includes public lands administered by the BLM designated as wilderness study areas or managed to maintain the wilderness character or potential thereof, and the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.

(4) Temporary access within the aforementioned areas, as well as the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and public lands administered by the BLM designated as wilderness study areas or managed to maintain the wilderness character or potential thereof.

But now, with controversy raging again over his son's renewed push for drilling, which he and other proponents say will damage neither the ecology or the wilderness character of the area, that record is likely to be shattered this summer.

Lawyers for the group estimate that 82percentt of the lands in Utah that the Bureau of Land Management said had wilderness character in 1999 are now open for energy, mining or motorized recreation.

We applied the wilderness perception mapping methodology to the Adirondack Park, a six-million acre protected area in New York State (USA) that consists of mixed private and public land use classifications designed to promote wilderness character while maintaining a permanent residential population.

Unless otherwise provided by BLM, the Wilderness Act, or the Act of Congress designating the area as wilderness, all wilderness areas will be open to uses consistent with the preservation of their wilderness character and their future use and enjoyment as wilderness.

Oil development and resulting impacts also threaten Yasuní's wilderness characters and its largely intact mega-faunal assemblage.

Even in Samantha Harvey's fine novel The Wilderness the character with dementia is looking back through a thickening fog of forgetfulness at his more vivid past in order to confront loss; he can hold on to a vision that endures.

But Burr also spent a lot of time in the wilderness with dodgy characters, and there is at least circumstantial evidence that his intentions were more malign.

The author of three deceptively slim novels -- Toughboy and Sister" and "Winter Camp" preceding "The Year of Miss Agnes" -- Hill writes survival stories, her setting the Alaskan wilderness and her characters Athabascan Indians.

For Turner, "the problem of the West" was the problem of maintaining American [End Page 1] exceptionalism in an era when the palliative effects of wilderness on the "American character" and the ameliorative effects of free land on American social conflicts would no longer be nourished by the open frontier.