Let Environmentalists Manage Wilderness Lands

Publication Date: October 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): John A. Baden

Research Area: Environment

Keywords: Energy and environment

Type: Report

Abstract:

From an economic point of view, most designated wilderness land should be left untouched. Only a small portion of this land contains precious resources, and thus little is lost by leaving such land in its wilderness state. In some isolated cases, however, the cost in unused resources may be extremely high. It is the process of deciding which lands have great economic value to the nation in natural resources, and which do not, that lies at the heart of the current controversy.