A big, wild HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Gila Wilderness, which turns 100 years old today!
Aldo Leopold’s visionary proposal for a wilderness area in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest came to fruition on June 3, 1924, when the U.S. Forest Service administratively designated it the world’s first wilderness area, the Gila Wilderness, four decades before the 1964 Wilderness Act designated the area by statute.Gila Wilderness by Howie Wolke, Wilderness Watch board member
I did not know it was this early.