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0033:12 Undeveloped lands The unit contains eight inventoried road less areas described in the 1973 Forest Service Final Environmental Statement on Roadless and Undeveloped Areas: Name Acreaae "V-Rock 13,210 (Selected New Study Area) Big Ranch 19,150 -- "Bianco River Divide 39,000 (Selected New Study Area) Treasure Mountain 17,300 'Sand Creek 29,000 (Selected New Study Area) 'Chama-South San Juan 116,844 (Selected New Study Area) Willow Mountain 21150 'Cruces Basin 17,600 (Selected New Study Area) Total 273,854 Acres Five of the eight areas were selected by the Chief of the Forest Service in October, 1973, as New Study Areas. The five, V-Rock, Blanco River Divide, Sand Creek, Chama.South San Juan, and Cruces Basin, will be evaluated for availability, suitability, and need as Wilderness. Under the terms of the 1964 Wilderness Act, Congress retains the authority to actually designate Wi Iderness. ~ The Act states that Wilderness.". . . in contrast with those areas where man and his own 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. An area of wilderness is further defined in this Act to mean an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value."