History
The wilderness was established as part of the original Wilderness Act in 1964 as the Minarets Wilderness. The 109,500-acre (44,300 ha) Minarets Wilderness was created by enlarging and renaming the Mount Dana-Minarets Primitive Area.
In 1984, after his death, the area was expanded and renamed in honor of Ansel Adams, well-known environmentalist and nature photographer who is famous for his black and white landscape photographs of the Sierra Nevada.
Adventurer Steve Fossett died in 2007 after his airplane crashed in the wilderness near Minaret Lake; despite a massive search effort, the wreckage wasn't discovered for over a year.
Read more about this topic: Ansel Adams Wilderness
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