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West Canada Lake Wilderness Area - 156,695 acres (634.122 km 2) William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - 20,500 acres (83 km 2) Catskill Park: Slide Mountain Wilderness Area 47,500 acres (190 km 2) Big Indian-Beaverkill Wilderness Area 33,000 acres (132 km 2) Indian Head Wilderness Area 16,800 acres (67.2 km 2) West Kill Wilderness Area 19,250 ...
Ute Mountain Tribal Park Ute Mountain Ute Tribe: 125,000 acres (51,000 ha) CRIT Ahakhav Tribal Preserve Colorado River Indian Tribes: 1995 Yurok-Tolowa-Dee-ni' Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area Resighini Tribe of Yurok People, Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria: 2023 700 sq mi [1]
Some wilderness areas are managed by multiple agencies. Some areas are designated wilderness by state or tribal governments. These are not governed by the Federal National Wilderness Preservation System. This table lists all U.S. areas that have been designated by the United States Congress under the Wilderness Act. The designation date is the ...
Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos. In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies ...
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.
The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness , while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation .
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.
List of wilderness areas of the United States; List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas; List of wilderness study areas; List of The Wildlands Conservancy preserves; List of largest National Wildlife Refuges