Meanwhile conservationists have been telling a Holyrood committee more must be done to protect wild land across Scotland.
Tom Worrell(ph), a wild land fire analysts for the Forest Service, says there does seem to be a trend.
Mr Wheelhouse said government agency Scottish Natural Heritage had been mapping wild land and this data would help a review of planning policy.
The Scottish government has defended its record on wind farm applications in the face of criticism that it was failing to protect wild land areas.
Mr. BOYKIN: In the last 25 years in my career, I've seen these pieces of ground that gone from wild land, turn into big subdivisions.
The Emperor, nearly 9ft (2.75m) tall, was thought to have been the biggest wild land animal in the UK - though some experts have questioned this.
She said the council was writing to the government urging it to support a Scottish Natural Heritage proposal to protect what it designated as "wild land".
The event aims to identify key synergies across different policy agendas which relate to wild land conservation and restoration and identify associated future opportunities for wild landscapes.
In a separate event, Holyrood's public petitions committee is hearing from the John Muir Trust and Scottish Natural Heritage about how best to protect Scotland's wild land.
The trust has been working on maps to build a picture of the best wild land which it believes should be given statutory protection, separate to existing designations such as National Scenic Areas.
The drive was unexpectedly beautiful: a lonely road meandered through the hills, the scenery a juxtaposition of wild growth and arid land.
The vast view still captures the wild frontier and fertile land that held so much promise for those who once sailed across the sea with only their dreams and treasured culture to guide them.
With a keen sense of dispossession, I wandered out of the neighborhood to find someplace to sleep, and discovered that I had barely begun to use the resources available to me when I came upon an undeveloped piece of land as wild as I could wish.
Where the land runs out is a wild place, where the cliffs are the prows of ships, enduring the battering tides.
On the land around the wall, the wild chives they brought with them to season their food still grow.
Ten Hampden Park-sized football grounds could be fitted into the 332 acres of land calculated to have been burnt in wild fires in the north since 1 May.
Fesenjan is believed to have originated in Gilan province, a temperate green swath of land along the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran, where wild ducks are plentiful.
They have also been extremely active in the anti-wild horse movement that is determined to run rough-shod over every federal land-use and environmental law and regulation put into place to protect these horses.
The vertical cityscape belies the fact that around 40% of Hong Kong is official park land, with wildlife reserves holding Chinese porcupines, macaques, leopards and wild boar.
Stalkers see their activities as an important part of land management - a key method of regulating the number of deer in the wild.
"Our first fear is that the Bureau of Land Management has such a poor history of land management, " said Scott Silver, director of the Oregon-based Wild Wilderness organization.
To the west he looks out on mesas for 40 miles, and from his north-facing windows he occasionally catches glimpses of wild mustangs roaming the hills of thousands of acres owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
There's nothing new about any of this -- the wild party is firmly entrenched in youths' rites of passage in the movies and in high school lore across the land.
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