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With the passage of the Wilderness Act on September 3, 1964 Congress established the National Wilderness Preservation System and declared, "In order to assure an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness".

The Act went on to define Wilderness as, "in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain".

Friends of the Clearwater advocates for the permanent protection and future Wilderness designation of the more than 1 million acres of unprotected roadless lands on the Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests. We also work hard to protect the character of such Wilderness areas as the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the Gospel-Hump Wilderness and the Frank Church-River of No Return-Wilderness. To learn more about these unique and spectacular places see below!