List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas

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List of wilderness areas designated by U.S. state and tribal governments. Eight states had designated wilderness programs in 2002 while some other states had designated wildernesses. In 2002, the 9 state programs had 74 wilderness areas with a total protected area of 2,668,903 acres (1,080.5 km²). Florida had had 10 wilderness areas but their authorizing legislation was repealed in 1989.

For federally-designated wildernesses, see List of U.S. wilderness areas. There are also privately-owned areas called wildernesses like the Nature Conservancy's 12,000-acre (4.9 km²) Disney Wilderness Preserve in Florida.

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[edit] State wildernesses

[edit] Alaska

3 areas in 2002, total area 922,700 acres (373.5 km²)

[edit] California

10 areas in 2002, total area 466,320 acres (188.8 km²)

  • Boney Mountains State Wilderness Area
  • Mount San Jacinto State Wilderness Area
  • Orestimba State Wilderness Area, officially called the Henry W. Coe State Wilderness
  • Santa Rosa Mountains State Wilderness Area
  • Sinkyone Wilderness State Park

[edit] Colorado

  • Mitani-Tokuyasu State Wilderness Area

[edit] Hawaii

[edit] Maine

  • Allagash Wilderness Waterway

[edit] Maryland

27 areas in 2002, total area 39,412 acres (15.9 km²)

[edit] Michigan

1 area in 2002, total area 40,808 acres (16.5 km²)

[edit] Minnesota


[edit] Missouri

11 areas in 2002, total area 22,993 acres (9.3 km²)

[edit] New York

21 areas in 2002, total area 1,170,312 acres (4,738.11 km²)

Adirondack Park:

  • High Peaks Wilderness Complex - 226,435 acres (916.74 km²)
  • Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area
  • Whitney Wilderness Area - 20,500 acres (83 km²)
  • Five Ponds Wilderness Area
  • Ha-Dee-Ron-Da Wilderness Area
  • North River Wilderness Area
  • Dix Mountain Wilderness Area
  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area
  • Pharaoh Mountain Wilderness Area

Catskill Park:

  • Slide Mountain Wilderness Area 47,500 acres (190 km²)
  • Big Indian-Beaverkill Wilderness Area 33,000 acres (132 km²)
  • Indian Head Wilderness Area 16,800 acres (67.2 km²)
  • West Kill Wilderness Area 19,250 acres (77 km²)

(A proposed revision to the Catskill State Land Master Plan would upgrade two other management units in the Catskills from wild forest to wilderness status and transfer some land currently considered wild forest to existing wilderness areas)

[edit] South Carolina

  • Mountain Bridge Wilderness

[edit] Tennessee

  • Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness - 10,000 acres (40 km²)

[edit] Wisconsin

1 area in 2002, total area 6,358 acres (2.6 km² )

[edit] Tribal wildernesses

[edit] Flathead Indian Reservation (Montana)

  • Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness

[edit] Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission

consisting of 11 Ojibwa tribes: Bay Mills Indian Community, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and Lac Vieux Desert band in Michigan; Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac du Flambeau, Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Red Cliff and St. Croix bands in Wisconsin; and Fond du Lac and Mille Lacs bands in Minnesota.

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