In accordance with the National Wilderness Preservation System of the United States of America, the definition of wilderness as stated in Section 2. (C): A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.

The majesty and myth of the natural world questions our intimacy and estrangement with nature; topographies of The Wilderness Act of 1964 throughout the Western United States: California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, 2013.