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<br />0002'40 <br /> <br />A NATIONAL <br />WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM <br /> <br />Public Law 88.577, of September 3, 1964, establishing a National <br />Wilderness Preservation System, provides, in part, as follows: <br /> <br />POLICY <br /> <br />"It is. . . the policy of the Congress to secure for the American <br />people of present and future generations the benefits of an <br />enduring resource of wilderness." <br /> <br />AREAS FOR STUDY <br /> <br />"Within ten years after the effective date of this Act the Secretary <br />of the Interior shall review every road less area of five thousand <br />contiguous acres or more in the national parks, monuments and <br />other units of the national park system. . . , under his jurisdiction <br />of the effective date of this Act and shall report to the President <br />his recommendation as to the suitability or nonsuitability of each <br />such area. . . for preservation as wilderness." <br /> <br />SYSTEM <br /> <br />" . . . there is hereby established a National Wilderness Preservation <br />System to be composed of federally owned areas designated by <br />Congress as 'wilderness areas' . . . ." <br /> <br />DEFINITION <br /> <br />"A wilderness.. . is . . . an area where the earth and its <br />community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is <br />a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further <br />defined to mean. . . an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining <br /> <br />2 <br />