What is wilderness?

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3.1 million acres of wilderness

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Only Congress can designate a wilderness area.

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Horseback Riding… Hiking… Hunting…

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Prohibited in wilderness:

Road Building… Logging… Motorized Vehicles…

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Where is wilderness?

You are here

Wilderness is here, right in your backyard.

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Who manages Public lands?

U.S. Forrest Service B.L.M. National Park Service

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Who owns Private lands?

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Current Wilderness: –  Fitzpatrick –  Absaroka –  Washakie –  North Absaroka –  Absaroka- Beartooth –  Popo Agie

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How did we get here?

Carl Dunrud giving Amelia Earhart a haircut, Dunrud’s Double D Ranch near Kirwin,WY 1934

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Thanks to people like the Murie’s and

the Arapaho-Shoshone Joint

Business Council, an additional

1.1 million acres were protected.

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Work we’re doing today.

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To keep it like it is.

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And those who call it

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Wyoming’s Wilderness…

…Belongs to us all.