Wilderness
The forest contains three wilderness areas comprising 36,200 acres (146 km2):
- Mill Creek Wilderness at 17,400 acres (70 km2)
- Bridge Creek Wilderness at 5,400 acres (22 km2)
- Black Canyon Wilderness at 13,400 acres (54 km2)
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Famous quotes containing the word wilderness:
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“American mind a wilderness of opportunities.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)