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<br />00fl730 <br /> <br />management to maintain the wilderness values. C. M. Granger, Acting Chief of the Forest <br />Service, approved the reclassification on March 18, 1951, upon the March 13 <br />recommendation of Re9ional forester Edward P. Cliff. Forest Supervisor E. S. Miller <br />recommended the action on March 9, 1951, which resulted in a classified area of 359,700 <br />acres with no private inholdings. <br /> <br />Following the 1951 reclassification, the area remained unchanged until the 1964 Wilderness <br />Act was passed. The resulting name change dropped" Area," so that the current designation <br />is simply the North Absaroka Wilderness. The acreage and boundaries did not change, <br />however, and the Wilderness remains essentially as Supervisor Langworthy knew it: <br />", . .(where) one may travel. . .for many days without encountering any evidence of modern <br />civilization," <br />