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First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100
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"First and Wildest is an elegant, impassioned, and timely tribute to its remarkable past and present.”
—MICHELLE NIJHUIS
In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwaters of New Mexico's Gila River and proposed to his bosses at the Forest Service that 500,000 acres of that rough country be set aside as roadless wilderness. Thus was born America's first—the world's first—designated wilderness. A century later, writer–activists, including Indigenous voices, come...