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Wilderness

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Wilderness meaning

Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild. | A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness. | An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

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Three wilderness areas are adjacent to Yosemite: the Ansel Adams Wilderness to the southeast, the Hoover Wilderness to the northeast, and the Emigrant Wilderness to the north.

Sixteen mountain goats were removed from the Mount Ellinor and Mount Washington area, seven from The Brothers Wilderness, seven from the Buckhorn Wilderness, and two from the Mount Skokomish Wilderness.

Wilderness Society South Australian Director Peter Owen says the Wilderness Society welcomes Equinor’s decision to responsibly withdraw from the marine wilderness that is the Great Australian Bight.

The Wilderness Act is the “gold standard” for protection of wilderness, wildlife and fish habitat and biological diversity.

Brave Wilderness — Nathaniel "Coyote" Peterson hosts videos from “Blue Wilderness,” a series featuring ocean life, to those in which he allows himself to be stung by various creatures.

Whatever wilderness there is, then, it is wilderness that has been barred and prevented by some government, i.e., with taxpayer funds, from being homesteaded by private parties (most likely by neighboring property owners).

While wilderness experts caution against carrying the devices as an excuse to take unnecessary risks, like paddling alone into a snowstorm even as lakes are icing over, the devices are becoming a more widely accepted accessory in wilderness travel.

From the Los Rios we got back in the car drove a few miles down Ortega Highway to Caspers Wilderness Park, an 8,000-acre protected wilderness preserve nestled among the river terraces and sandstone canyons of the western coastal Santa Ana Mountains.

Shenandoah National Park will honor America’s wilderness heritage during its 19th annual Wilderness Weekend on Sept. 7. Special events and programs will take place throughout the day.

This year commemorates the 43rd anniversary of Shenandoah’s wilderness designation where forty percent of the park, or nearly 80,000 acres, is designated wilderness.

In addition to the limited roadless wilderness remaining in the United States, downgrading wilderness areas to wild forests may sacrifice the few lingering fragments of unspoiled nature in the Northeast.

But contact with real wilderness in Maine affected him far differently than had the idea of wilderness in Concord.

For example, at 2.3 million acres (930,000 ha), the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area is the largest contiguous area of protected wilderness in the continental United States.

Mules are still used extensively to transport cargo in rugged roadless regions, such as the large wilderness areas of California's Sierra Nevada mountains or the Pasayten Wilderness of northern Washington state.

The Trace was called the "North Carolina Road" or " Avery's Trace ", and sometimes "The Wilderness Road" (although it should not be confused with Daniel Boone 's " Wilderness Road " through the Cumberland Gap ).

Wilderness EMS Systems (WEMS) have been developed to deliver a standard and professional medical response to wilderness areas.

According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency has two special agents in Idaho, two in Wyoming, and three in Montana — a total of seven agents covering more than 328,000 square miles, much of it rugged backcountry wilderness.

After escaping a second time and getting shot in the leg, he runs into the wilderness.

After more than a decade in the wilderness, Democrats are picturing a future where Republicans don’t have an automatic lock on state government in one of the country’s most important swing states.

After years of hiding out in the Alaskan wilderness, a deadly assassin returns to rescue the daughter she loved from afar.