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Advanced Wilderness Quiz

Test your knowledge by completing the beginning quiz or intermediate quiz.

1. The California Desert Protection Act created how many new wilderness acres?

2. Under what authority does the Bureau of Land Management manage wilderness areas?

3. Who recommended Trappers Lake be left undeveloped?

4. Who is generally given credit for the U Regulations?

5. Who is generally given most of the credit for writing the Wilderness Act?

6. Approximately what percentage of the entire United States is protected as wilderness?

7. What law allows wheelchairs use in Wilderness?

Administrative Procedures Act
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Wheelchairs are not allowed in wilderness since they are a form of mechanical transport
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Federal Land Policy and Management Act
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None of the above
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8. What is the minimum necessary (also termed minimum requirements) philosophy?

The most cost effective method of performing stewardship work
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The fastest method of achieving management objectives
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First determining if any management action is necessary, then determining how to accomplish the action using the least amount (if any) of an otherwise prohibited use
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First obtaining public input, then determining the best way to achieve the most popular solution
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9. Why are bicycles not allowed in wilderness?

The Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibits mechanical transport
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Bicycles cause conflicts with other user groups
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Only traditional recreational activities are allowed in Wilderness
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Bicycles cause greater resource impacts than other types of use
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10. Which successful landmark conservation battle is most well-known for galvanizing
and uniting America's early conservation movement?

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Wilderness Connect, housed on the University of Montana campus, acknowledges that we are on the traditional lands of the Salish and Kalispel peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout many generations and are its past, present, and future caretakers.