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Wilderness and the National Forests Timeline

1924 Gila Wilderness Designation

1929 Forest Service L-20 Regulation for Primitive Areas

1932 Primitive Areas Policy Memorandum

1939 Forest Service U-Regulations for Wilderness and Wild Areas

1953 President Eisenhower Message

1956 Horace Albright Letter to Eisenhower

1956 Eisenhower Reply to Albright

1963 Forest Service Chief Edward P. Cliff Speech

1964 Wilderness Act

1967 Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman Speech

1968 Secretary Freeman I-70 Decision

1973 Forest Service and Eastern Wilderness

1974 Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz Speech

1975 Secretary Butz Speech

1978 Endangered American Wilderness Act

1982 George Hendee on Wilderness Management


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