“In your third installment of the Wilderness episodes some of your interviews talked about how we weren’t managing Wilderness and that we can’t. One thing to remember is that the Wilderness Act does allow for administrative action. It just requires that the agency evaluate the “minimal tool required” and use that. What we need to do is motivate the agencies to manage them with that minimal tool. Those guard rails are there to keep from large scale actions that aren’t considering ALL the characteristics of Wilderness.
Think about the tamarisk tree. It was put in place to address erosion and it worked. It worked so good that now we have a genetically modified beetle to address it.
The Wilderness Act put those guardrails there to slow action, not to stall it.
Great series, keep it up. You all are doing amazing things.”
pragmaticwolf via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/14/24