wilderness area
Example Sentences
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The Eagle Cap Wilderness area has over half a dozen trailheads scattered around the lake, but even if you aren’t into an all-day or overnight hiking excursion, you’ll be busy.
From Seattle Times
He also called it an equity issue, as any other overnight visitor in a designated wilderness area has to get a backcountry permit.
From Los Angeles Times
A major stumbling block for NewRange, still widely known by its original name PolyMet, and Twin Metals has been their proximity to the Boundary Waters, the country’s most-visited federally designated wilderness area.
From Seattle Times
But the DNR said in its decision, filed in Ramsey County District Court, that Minnesota already applies the most protective water quality standards available, and that no mine would be issued a permit if it would have a measurable impact on the waters of the wilderness area.
From Seattle Times
A wilderness area in the High Sierra would be named for him.
From New York Times
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