It explains the hundreds-of-millions of visitations to national parks and wilderness areas throughout the world.
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America is blessed with open space, wilderness areas, mountain vistas, diverse wildlife, austere desert and bountiful farm land.
The wilderness areas also have to be managed in a sustainable manner when it comes to conservation, tourism and human developments.
Paddlers pass sandy beaches, protected wilderness areas where ospreys and eagles roam and a blue heron rookery with upwards of 50 nests.
Buildings, bridges and other structures are said to have structural integrity and wilderness areas that remain pristine have retained their natural integrity.
It would also designate some 600, 000 acres as new federal wilderness areas.
Overlooking the Willamette River west of downtown Portland, Forest Park is one of the largest protected wilderness areas inside a US city.
Tom Udall proudly lists the wilderness areas he has preserved and speaks of his father's decision not to build a dam in the Grand Canyon.
But most are held in wilderness areas and require competitors to find a series of checkpoints using only a compass, an altimeter and a topographic map.
By using these companies, part of the money you spend on your holiday will go to conservation in these parks you will also be supporting sustainable tourism in these wilderness areas.
Mr. PATRICK CUMMINS (Western Regional Air Partnership): The states in the West, in particular, have demonstrated their commitment to improving air quality over our national parks and wilderness areas.
The majority of usable reservoirs are located in remote, scenic wilderness areas where construction of plants, access roads, power lines and other infrastructure is perceived as an unwelcome intrusion on nature.
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Deep inside the Arctic Circle, far closer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Svalbard is at once one of Europe's last intact wilderness areas and the world's most accessible slice of the polar North.
An aroused public impelled British Columbia's then government into new legislation to save old-growth and wilderness areas (so far, 9% in a planned 12% of the province's land), setting tough new standards for logging and increasing replanting.
To capture even more images, Google announced today Street View Trekker, a portable technology pack with 360-degree camera, that fits into a backpack and be carried by users into remote and wilderness areas only accessible by foot.
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Even when pressed last Friday morning on the "Today" show about why he wasn't talking about his executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas.
The High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas (Amazonia, the Congo forests of Central Africa, the Miombo-Mopane Woodlands of Southern Africa, the island of New Guinea, and the North American Deserts) are similar to the Hotspots in that they have very high levels of diversity and endemism, but unlike the Hotspots they are still largely intact.
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McCain opposes drilling in some parts of the wilderness and says those areas must be left undisturbed.
As a couple, the Muries would explore some of the most remote areas of the Alaskan wilderness, defying snow, clouds of mosquitoes in the summer, wild animals and physical toil.
In its legal brief, the DEC noted that the Adirondack Park is a nationally recognized canoe and kayak destination and the wilderness area is one of the most popular paddling and backcountry camping areas, attracting about 2, 000 users annually.
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