Click this link to see a transcript and hear Dave Schmitz on ANILCA [Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act].

Click this link to see a transcript and hear Dave Schmitz on the park's commercial use license.

Click 1 to download a pdf worksheet with summaries of laws, executive orders and regulations, adopted into federal law since 1964, that affect the interpretation and application of the National Wilderness Act. Take time to read these summaries. They have particular application to Denali National Park and Preserve and will help you complete the final step of this quest.

When is land suitable for wilderness? Once it is no longer pristine, can land ever be made suitable for wilderness?

Click 2 to download the worksheet Suitable or Unsuitable? and read the description of mountain land. Then, apply the wilderness laws to determine the land's suitability, or possible suitability, for wilderness status.

Aldo Leopold, one of the nation's great conservationists, thought that it really was possible to manipulate wilderness, to make it more wild. Could the land in the eastern mountains be "managed" into wilderness?