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wilderness
wilderness Desert area of sand or rock—but also sloping ground unsuitable for cereals but possible for grazing cattle or sheep (Exod. 3: 1). It was a much treasured tradition of the Hebrews that their forefathers had wandered for ‘forty years’ following the
Exodus from
Egypt, after complaining in the wastes of
Sinai (Deut. 8: 15). In retrospect this became idealized as a time of incorruption (Hos. 2: 14–15). Jesus spent ‘forty days’ in the wilderness (Matt. 4: 1–11) tempted by
Satan to doubt his mission and visited by the wild
beasts (Mark 1: 13) who roamed the wildernesses (Ezek. 34: 25). The
Qumran monastery was established in the wilderness in the light of Isa. 40: 3; members of the Community were preparing ‘a highway for their God’.
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Wilderness valuation. (preservation)
Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation; 8/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Wilderness. There was a time when the beauty of...miles in any direction. Today not much wilderness remains. And wild, untamed places...the lower 48 states is protected as wilderness. The future of wilderness in this country...
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WILDERNESS STUDIES TIMETABLE FREE ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS:WILLIAM H. MEADOWS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 10/28/1999; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY Testimony of William H. Meadows, President, The Wilderness Society on H.R. 1500, America's Wilderness Protection Act Before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests...
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Wilderness protection campaign begins in West Virginia.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...Johnson signed the national Wilderness Act into law, a new effort is...West Virginia to bring federal wilderness protection to tracts of remote...Among those seeking to add new wilderness areas to the Mon is Ed Zahniser...
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Wilderness protection campaign begins
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 9/3/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Johnson signed the national Wilderness Act into law, a new effort is...West Virginia to bring federal wilderness protection to tracts of remote...Among those seeking to add new wilderness areas to the Mon is Ed Zahniser...
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Wilderness, hope, and renewal: programs that include persons with disabilities.(Wilderness Education)(Wilderness Inquiry)
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...continue canoeing, skiing, visiting wilderness areas, and mountain biking. Outdoor/wilderness recreation was the main thing on his mind...him a number of brochures on outdoor and wilderness programs that includes people with disabilities...
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WILDERNESS MANAGERS RECEIVE NATIONAL STEWARDSHIP AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/3/2006; 700+ words
; ...management by Forest Service personnel netted the Desolation Wilderness Area a prestigious national award for wilderness stewardship this year. The Aldo Leopold Award for Overall Wilderness Stewardship Program is given out annually to national forests...
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Wilderness takes a massive hit; The door closes on new BLM wilderness proposals
Newspaper article from: High Country News; 4/28/2003; ; 700+ words
; For years, wilderness groups have been hounding the Bureau of Land Management...continue to identify lands worthy of formal protection as wilderness. An initial round of wilderness inventories, completed in 1991, led to protection of...
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Wilderness and the human spirit. (Wilderness Discovery program)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...happening out there as programs like Wilderness Discovery help disadvantaged kids...fortunate enough to participate in the Wilderness Discovery program, which takes...youth on backpacking trips into wilderness areas, where they can learn about...
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Wilderness Showdown Draws Near;House Panel to Weigh Montana Lands Bill
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...the last great battles over western wilderness is heading for an uncertain climax on...permanently protected as federally designated wilderness or opened up to uses such as mining...Legislation apportioning those lands between wilderness and non-wilderness has passed the...
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Wilderness at 25 - a look to the future. (Wilderness Act)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 7/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...writer and lecturer. On the eve of the Wilderness Act's silver anniversary, questions...Twenty-five years ago this fall, the Wilderness Act became law. Seven years after Minnesota...Hubert Humphrey introduced the first wilderness bill, and some 66 revisions later...
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Wilderness Medicine
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Wilderness Medicine Definition Wilderness medicine encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment...in remote territories. Purpose Activities that may require wilderness medicine include backpacking, cross-country skiing, mountaineering...
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wilderness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
wilderness land retaining its primeval character with the imprint...minimal or unnoticeable. In the United States, the Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System with a nucleus of 9 million acres...
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Wilderness, battles of the
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
WILDERNESS, BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS, BATTLES OF THE. On 4 May 1864 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's...crossing, as might have been expected, Lee withdrew to the Wilderness, a heavily wooded and tangled region, where the Union's...
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Wilderness to Petersburg Campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Wilderness to Petersburg Campaign (1864).On...of battles, from the Battle of the Wilderness to the siege of Petersburg , was called...stopping for the night in the timbered Wilderness near Spotsylvania, Virginia. On 5...
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Wilderness Road
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
WILDERNESS ROAD WILDERNESS ROAD ran from eastern Virginia through the mountain pass known as...than half a century after Boone's party traveled the road, the Wilderness Road was a principal avenue for the movement of eastern immigrants...
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