Tray Norman Outside Reading

This information is gathered from a journal article called Sustainability and Wilderness by Noss. It elaborates on four important values of the wilderness. The first value that makes the wilderness sacred and unique is that it provides a standard of healthy, intact, and relatively unmodified land. Any disturbance to the wilderness would jepordize the existence of the creatures that live there. The absence of roads and the limited accessibility to humans is they key to the integrity. The second value is that it provides habitat for speices that do not get along with humans. Third, wilderness offers a source of humility; there is absolute freedom, a refuge of sanity in an overcivilized world. It also has a value for its own sake; there must be some balance between land managed for natural values and land managed for commodities. Because wilderness has these values, and not many other places on earth do, it is important to keep them the way they are; untouched by humans. Wilderness is the foundation of conservation, but even conservation biologists are shunning this idea due to modernity of sustainable management of natural resources. Americans need to become educated and appreciative of what the wilderness has to offer. These four values hold the reason that the wilderness should be preserved.