Happy 50th birthday, Wilderness Act

President Lyndon Johnson signed the act on Sept. 3, 1964

September 3, 2014 at 6:59PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Savage River, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, the way it looked when I stopped by early last month. Two million acres, including just about everything in this picture, were designated federal wilderness in 1980.

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James Shiffer