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Pepperbox Wilderness Area - 22,560 acres (91.300 km 2) Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - 45,883 acres (185.68 km 2) Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area - 50,100 acres (202.75 km 2) Saint Regis Canoe Area - 18,231 acres (73.778 km 2) Sentinel Range Wilderness Area - 23,252 acres (94.098 km 2) Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area - 112,524 acres (455.368 km 2)
These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of wilderness.
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Wilderness Act: This Act, which was passed in 1964, classified and protected 54 wilderness areas (about 9.1 million acres) and established a system of adding new lands to the National Wilderness Preservation System. It also allowed jurisdiction over these wilderness areas by the Forest Service, National Park Service, or Fish and Wildlife Service.
Wilderness areas of the Appalachians (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Wilderness areas of the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Strict nature reserves and wilderness areas are protected areas that are created and managed mainly for the purposes of research or for the protection of large, unspoiled areas of wilderness. Their primary purpose is the preservation of biodiversity and as essential reference areas for scientific work and environmental monitoring.
The U-Regulations superseded the L-20 Regulations and created two types of areas. Regulation U-1 created Wilderness Areas (over 100,000 acres). Regulation U-2 created Wild Areas (5,000 to 100,000 acres). The U Regulations prohibited mechanized access, timber harvesting and road construction in the wilderness and wild areas.
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