Interagency Coordination on Wilderness

Number: 1978-13

WHEREAS, the U.S. Forest Service currently is engaged in a re-evaluation of its lands for possible wilderness designation under the Wilderness Preservation System Act of 1964; and

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Land Management is just beginning to review its roadless and undeveloped areas for possible eventual wilderness designation; and

WHEREAS, numerous legislative proposals are pending in the Congress to designate areas within the National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Systems as wilderness; and

WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation continues to support the designation of suitable federal lands as wilderness; and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 16-19, 1978, in Phoenix, Ariz., hereby endorses the establishment of a mechanism or interagency task force to assure increased interagency coordination on wilderness designated and, within this framework, to analyze the accumulative impacts of designations which occur within proximity of one another.