81. Law enforcement operations and enforcement-related aircraft flights in wilderness areas have added to the disruption of nature. 82. Many power lines still are buried under snow drifts in wilderness areas, Paulsen said. 83. Most wilderness areas are on Forest Service land or in national parks. 84. Mountain biking is not allowed on the portions of the trail within wilderness areas or in most areas of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. 85. Most of the mountainous areas along the front are protected as federal wilderness areas, but the plains, where much of the wildlife winters, are not protected. 86. Next to the Everglades in Florida, the Okefenokee is now the second largest wilderness area in the South. 87. Much of that has flowed from Aroostook County, the vast, mostly wilderness area of northern Maine that has awed outdoorsmen but discouraged new businesses. 88. Muir was an important force in getting the government to preserve bits and pieces of untamed land by establishing official wilderness areas. 89. National parks and wilderness areas are innocent bystanders amid the violence that is air pollution, soiled by contaminants carried on the wind from urban areas. 90. Nearly all of the Greyfield Tract is in a congressionally designated wilderness area and would become part of the national seashore managed by the National Park Service. |
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