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o (}o', (} (l 1922 Leopold prepares proposal for the establishment of a wilderness-type area on the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. 1924 District (Regional) Forester Frank C. W. Pooler approves the Gila proposal and it is formally established at the Regional level. " 1926 Secretary of Agriculture Jardine approves the Superior National Forest recreation plan applying the wilderness concept to the Boundary Waters area. This is the first designation of a wilderness-type area at the National level. 1929 Secretary of Agriculture issues Regulation L-20. on July 12, which provides for uniform management of Primitive Areas. Authority to establish new areas is delegated to the Chief of the Forest Service. Some resource use-e.g., timber harvest is permitted under the Regulation but permanent occupancy. and commercial development is not. ~ " I 1931 Mt. Zirkel-Dome Peak Primitive Area is the first to be established in Colorado under Regulation L-20. Forest Service Chief R. Y. Stuart approves the proposal on October 15. 1932 The Boundary Waters Canoe Area is formally established under L-20 by the Secretary of Agriculture on February 15, 1932. It had been originally approved by the Secretary in 1926, prior to promu Igation of L-20. 1932 The Flat Tops Primitive Area is formally established under L-20 on March 5, 1932, some 13 years after Carhart advocated wilderness-type management for the Trappers Lake area. Cloud Peak Primitive Area in Wyoming is established on the same date. 1933 The Gila Primitive Area is brought under the L-20 authority June 8, 1933, almost a decade after the District (Regional) Forester approved the original plan of management for the Gila. .1929 - 1933 Forest Service identifies 63 potential Primitive Areas and formally establishes 11 under the L-20 authority. 1939 Secretary of Agriculture issues Regulations U-1, U-2, and U-3, on September 19,1939, which supersede L-20. These regulations provide for more restrictive management to protect Wilderness values. U-1 covers Wilderness Areas (over 100,000 acres), U-2 Wild Areas (under 100,000 acres), and U-3 Special Areas such as Geologic, Archeologic, and Scenic. Authority to designate Wilderness Areas is retained by the Secretary of Agriculture, with authority to designate Wild Areas and U-3 areas delegated to the Chief of the Forest Service. Wilderness and Wild Areas are to be identically managed and the existing Primitive Areas will be managed as Wilderness pending evaluation for reclassification as Wilderness or Wild Areas. Seventy-six Primitive Areas have been established to date. The Chief of Recreation for the Forest Service, Robert Marshall, was instrumental in the formulation of the new regulations