“If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.”
Arthur Carhart
Carhart was a Forest Service official tasked with surveying the land around Trapper's Lake for road and home development. Instead, he realized the area was so beautiful that it needed to be preserved for public use. Thus was born the wilderness concept within the U.S. Forest Service, and Trapper's Lake was the first Forest Service area to be set aside for wilderness purposes in the early 1920s.
Photo: Sunset on Trapper's Lake, Flattops Wilderness Area, CO; June 14, 2014
Arthur Carhart
Carhart was a Forest Service official tasked with surveying the land around Trapper's Lake for road and home development. Instead, he realized the area was so beautiful that it needed to be preserved for public use. Thus was born the wilderness concept within the U.S. Forest Service, and Trapper's Lake was the first Forest Service area to be set aside for wilderness purposes in the early 1920s.
Photo: Sunset on Trapper's Lake, Flattops Wilderness Area, CO; June 14, 2014
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