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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 the

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Gospel Hump Wilderness

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The United States Congress designated the Gospel-Hump Wilderness in 1978 and it now has a total of 205,796 acres. It is managed by the US Forest Service. They define it 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...."

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