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I wanted to get paid to camp.

No, but I have hiked several of the Redwood parks including in the area she is guessed to be at. Amazing groves there. Visit, respect and enjoy. Yes, I have combined experience, training, school and a foot in the door with Federal jobs. Work experience started just out of high school in the US Army and a little war called Desert Storm...that is my foot in the door. I was a wilderness EMT from NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute. And, I have taken courses in natural resource management and geology (HSU). Thanks for asking.

Wilderness is patrolled by foot, and I carry everything I need on my back. No secrecy, I pick up YOUR trash from YOUR lands. That's what rangers do. Pack it out!

Snow coming through my tent.

50 Years of Wilderness! The difference between Wilderness and wilderness is Wilderness are places that are Congressionally designated, while wilderness is a place in each persons mind, for example, "we drove through the wilderness until finally we came to a town." In contrast, Capital 'W' Wilderness, by designation, has no roads... "Public Law 88-577 (16 U.S. C. 1131-1136) 88th Congress, Second Session September 3, 1964 AN ACT To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE Section 1. This Act may be cited as the "Wilderness Act". WILDERNESS SYSTEM ESTABLISHED STATEMENT OF POLICY Sec. 2. (a) In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness" and... "DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS (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. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value." References Wilderness.net http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=nwps&sec=legisact Wilderness.org http://wilderness.org/article/wilderness-act