Wilderness protection campaign begins

Charleston Gazette | September 3, 2004| | Copyright

rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com

Forty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the national Wilderness Act into law, a new effort is under way in West Virginia to bring federal wilderness protection to tracts of remote wildlands in the Monongahela National Forest.

Among those seeking to add new wilderness areas to the Mon is Ed Zahniser of Harpers Ferry, son of Howard Zahniser, executive director of The Wilderness Society, who wrote the law that was enacted Sept. 3, 1964, creating the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Zahniser, who works for the National Park Service's national ...

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