Primeval minefield.(Devil in the Details)

FOR A FEDERAL STATUTE, the Wilderness Act of 1964 contains some unusually poetic language. As if channeling Henry David Thoreau, the act defines a federal wilderness area as a place "where the earth and its community are untrammeled by man ... retaining its primeval character and influence ... and that generally appears to have been affected primarily by forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable."

It's therefore a wonder how on God's green earth a large swath of land used as a naval bombing range for 50 years could qualify as a ...

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