Today is the 45th anniversary of the Wildnerness Act

By Garrison Frost

September 04, 2009

As the Los Vegas Sun notes, it was 45 years ago today that Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, immediately protecting more than 9 million acres of National Forest land.

By Garrison Frost

September 04, 2009

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