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The Wilderness Act of 1964 created the legal definiton of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres (37,000 square km) of federal land. The result of a long effort to protect federal wilderness, the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964.

<quote>...an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.</quote>

External links

• Full text of the Wilderness Act
• Commentary on the WA's effect on federal land
• WA's 40th Anniversary in 2004