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0009.J9 Supervisor Pearce's vision is recorded on a map dated February 7, 1933, where the general boundaries of the "Glacial Primitive Area" are recorded. In 1936, Pearce's successor, Roy L, Williams, formally recommended the Glacier Primitive Area and his recommendation was approved February 16, 1937, by C. M. Granger, Acting Chief of the Forest Service, Although both the Glacier and Popo Agie areas had been recognized for years for their wilderness, road less or primitive qualities (and all three of these terms were used at different times), the final decision for special classification apparently resulted from a July 1936 field survey of the entire Wind River Range. These quotes come from a fall '36 report by Forest Supervisor Roy L. Williams which refers to the Glacier and Po po Agie areas, the Shoshone Indian Wind River Roadless Area which separates the two, and the Bridger Wilderness adjoinin9 on the west at the Continental Divide. ~ i "The United States Forest Service and the Indian Service has felt the need for preserving to posterity these unspoiled wilderness or road less areas." "In July 1936 a party of Forest Service and Indian Service officials made a survey of the Wind River Range and as a result of this survey, an area of approximately 1,200,000 acres of the most scenic and historical country in the State of Wyoming has been recommended set aside as the Wind River Roadless area." "This wonder area is open to the public, that portion at least, who have plenty of red blood and are willing to ride a horse or hike into it in the same way in which Washakie, Bonneville, and Fremont did 100 years ago." ~ II Today, the land remains much the same. The 177,000 acres in the Glacier, and the 70,000 acres in the Popo Agie which were formally classified as Primitive Areas in 1937 came under the provision of the 1964 Wilderness Act. In 1971 the Chief of Forest Service and Secretary of Agriculture proposed that 182,510 acres of the Glacier be designated as Wilderness under the provisions of the Wilderness Act. " Their proposal speaks eloquently of the area. "The proposed Glacier Wilderness of 182,5,10 acres is an 'area of immeasurable beauty and grandeur suitable for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is unsurpassed, in the contiguous forty-eight states for rugged, rocky scenery, carved out of granite and limestone by the action of glaciers and their offspring of cold, rushing waters. Here lies the chance for an experience in survival in thousands of acres of mountainous country, at the mercy of severe summer storms with plummeting temperatures. Here, too, lies the tranquility of peace and solitude, after the storm, to soothe man's soul." ': " , "Awe inspiring glaciers, spawning milky cascades of water, are to be seen and challenged here, Peaceful meadows, among the towering canyons with their craggy, sparsely timbered character, give variety to the scene that the adventuresome traveler enjoys. The sighting of a magnificent mountain sheep, high in the rocks above a sapphire lake, is the reward for tiresome travel through nearly unsurmountable terrain."