31.   After amassing a million acres of ancient forests, Tompkins opened Pumalin Park, a private wilderness area for hiking and camping.

32.   After the creation of parks and wilderness areas, they have seemed intent on limiting access.

33.   Burns added a rider that would terminate the ongoing public process of grizzly bear reintroduction into the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness area of Idaho and Montana.

34.   But he said that while he welcomed federal responsibility for national parks, he felt that local wilderness areas and natural resources should be managed by local governments.

35.   But here, the mountains beckon, and aides said the president would likely take a trip to Yellowstone National Park or another wilderness area.

36.   But other actions, including changing the wilderness study areas, would almost certainly require congressional approval.

37.   But some environmentalists see the meadows as the last great unprotected wilderness area in the New York region.

38.   But the idea of reintroduction had always raised hackles in communities like Dixie, Idaho, and Hamilton, Mont., on the fringes of the wilderness areas.

39.   But these parks and wilderness areas will not be strictly nature sanctuaries.

40.   By designing crops for such marginal areas, forests and wilderness areas could be conserved, he says.