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The Wilderness Act at 50: Resilience Thinking and 'Wilderness'
By Brian Walker / On August 27th, 2014
Editor's note: September 3 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. To commemorate the anniversary, we asked a small group of Island Press authors to reflect on the influence of this law to date and how its role may or should change as we move into an uncertain future.