Redefining Wilderness

By: Ian Dandridge, Jack Claypool, Natalie Germain, & Chase Pratt

Wilderness

• Is anywhere truly wild?

• Define

Wilderness Boundaries

• Wilderness divided into three boundaries• 3/8 Wilderness• 2/8 (1/4) Subsistence interaction • 3/8 Commercial use

Wilderness Boundaries

Wilderness: 3/8 (37.5%)

• three sections • follows the wilderness definition• Visitors• Pack in pack out• Trails • Important Restrictions

Fire in Wilderness

• We will allow fire management in all land areas, including but not limited to National Parks and Wilderness areas.

• Fire management techniques are key for the modern day climate

Subsistance Interaction: 25%

• Subsistence Definition: the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimal level.

• Allowing for more permanent nomadic lifestyles such as those of the natives who originally lived in these wilderness areas.

• Would include things such as bow hunting, fishing, and traditional trapping methods.

Restrictions• Shelters must be temporary and constructed from local and organic

resources and materials. • Because the definition of subsistence limits actions to maintaining

the life of oneself, all other actions such as for profit or fame are prohibited.

• Although all motorized vehicles, mountain bikes and machinery are prohibited, horses will be allowed.

• Similarly to the wilderness zone, fire management and limited key stone species protection will be accepted.

"in Wilderness is the preservation of the world."-Thoreau

Commercial Use: 37.5%• The outer boundary• Recreation that is allowed in SFAM includes OHV, Hunting, Trap Shooting,

as well as tracking.• Wilderness visitors have a wealth of allowable recreational options to enjoy.• I not crossing through, or coming close to habitats that could be disturbed

by noise, and constant disruption of humans. • Use of natural resources without over exploiting them, or not using them at

all. • New model for forests and other lands.

Commercial Logging

• Specific and sustainable logging practices

• Only in commercial boundaries

• Practices must allow for reforestation and tree regeneration to occur.

Sustainable Federal Acreage Management

• SFAM is a new management system

• Manages all land areas across the country

• Unites all previous management groups

Works Cited

• Oxford Dictionaries. "subsistence." Accessed April 29, 2015. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/subsistence.

• Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), 84, 140, 183.