This month, America is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the Wilderness Act, which President Lyndon Johnson signed
into law on September 3, 1964. At the signing, Johnson declared:
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."
Those were the days when Democrats and Republicans knew how to work together. The Wilderness Act passed in the Senate by a vote of 73 to 12, and in the House by 373 to 1.
Photos: (Top) The Narrows of the Virgin River, Zion National Park, UT, August 30, 2014; (Middle) Sunflowers at Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT, August 29, 2014; (Bottom) Rosy Paintbrush, Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness, CO, August 9, 2014
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