Sentence examples for wilderness system from inspiring English sources

The initial bill would have placed many millions of acres into the wilderness system.

The wilderness system now embraces 107 million acres, and this is the biggest addition since 1994.

Since 1964 more than 100 million acres (40 million hectares) have been made part of the wilderness system.

And all of these would be welcome additions to a wilderness system that now covers about 107 million acres.

Under the final provisions, far less acreage was included in the system, some exceptions were made for use, and an act of Congress was required to add more land to the wilderness system.

He drew up a bill that would place all wildlands and primitive areas (a primarily historical designation for unspoiled land without roads or public accommodations) in a special wilderness system protected from development and provide a means to add land from national parks, monuments, and other federally protected lands and Indian reservations.

Mr. Biddle was in his racing shell, and I was taking my first strokes in the Focus, a new Wilderness Systems sea kayak designed for fitness paddling that the maker had sent me to test out.

The Wilderness barrier system contrasts with barriers developed elsewhere in the world where higher rates of crustal uplift have allowed preservation of a more complete and more widely spaced palaeorecord.

Mr. Hester had previously worked with the conservancy on the Big Wild, a system of roughly 20,000 acres of wilderness in the Santa Monica Mountains.

An intricate system of wilderness trails in the national park runs from the central and southeast entrances.

Early supporters of the act, passed in 1972, had hoped it would be used to create a system of marine wilderness reserves on the same principles as for those on land.