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The complete text of this law in PDF format. retrieved April 4, 2008
The Wilderness.net pages on each new / expanded wilderness areas, with detail of acreage by agency:
- Siskiyou Wilderness
- Snow Mountain Wilderness
- Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
- Sanhedrin Wilderness
- Yuki Wilderness
- Mount Lassic Wilderness
- Cache Creek Wilderness
- Cedar Roughs Wilderness
- South Fork Eel River Wilderness
- King Range Wilderness
See also
San Francisco Chronicle's columnist Tom Steinstra's article (dated Oct. 2002) concerning fraud charges against Senator Boxer by mountain biking groups. retrieved April 4, 2008
Press release of a working agreement between several mountain biking clubs and wilderness advocates, from a meeting held at Reno, Nevada on March 19-20, 2002
- The Wilderness Act of 1964