The article is highlighting the history of one of the political debates, which is wilderness or as the article defined it "where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor and does not remain". The congress of 1964 passed the historical law, which intended to offset a growing population that threatened every single part of the American land. In order to preserve the land for the next generations the law was necessary. Moreover it was one of the laws that unified the whole congress, with 75 senator, and all house members except one approving it. However with the American population reaching about 319 million, the growing off road vehicles recreation activities, the cattle industry, the mining and energy industries, this law is been threatened and started to allow more compromises. Moreover the article mentioned that the law had only succeed in protecting the higher elevation designated areas, but failed in protecting most of the lower elevation areas. Furthermore it was common in the history of US congress to keep naming new locations as wilderness area, but the 112 congress had the exception to not designated any, instead they actually took off 222 acres from wilderness act protection. Furthermore with the congress trying to compromise, there were 65 version of the wilderness act introduced, especially with their extra power from the bill that allowed Congress to propose and designate …show more content…
BLM is often referred to it as "the neglected stepchild" of wilderness act, however most conservationists are optimist that it would be more easier to include BLM land in wilderness act than any other land, since it is a land owned by all Americans, especially with the increasing