Preserving America's Wilderness Areas

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America’s wilderness areas are vitally important for our nation's health and well-being. Preserving America’s Wilderness areas is necessary for conservation of resources, it is necessary for the survival of Human, and necessary in maintaining biodiversity.

Over the years, past resources have quickly dwindling. Since then conservation has broadened beyond the use of natural resources, and has become a movement. Many critics of conservation believed it would stifle industrial development, however, the conservation movement has increased development over the years because it forced the need to find an alternative source of power. One of the main concepts of conservation is that it should be used to benefit the many not for the profit of the few, like big business that destroy large areas of wilderness without care for what they are destroying. Preserving wilderness areas will help with the conservation of America’s resources that are quickly dwindling. The resources we had years ago is much less due to the supply and demand of society today. Preserving certain areas will allow us to...

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