How Protecting Wilderness Could Mean Purposefully Tending It, Not Just Leaving It Alone

This article was written by Clare E. Boerigter, a wilderness fire research fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service, for The Conversation — a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of researchers and scientists, under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas — togeth