What to you is "WILDERNESS".......???

[kaboku68]

Both of you can be technically correct. ANILCA allows those who pursue subsistence activities and live in subsistence designated rural communities and fill out the right use permits to hunt subsistence using NPS rules. You can also submit a 13.44 cultural and traditional use permit that has to be signed by the NPS Park Superintendent that confirms that you hunted in the area before it was a park. In this case you can live outside those subsistence communities but you can't live in a community that is not considered rural. To make it more complicated there are some communities that are only allowed to hunt a certain part of the National Park. This is where those living in Tok Junction can only hunt the North Side of the Wrangells in the Hard Park. No such regulation exists for those living in the South Wrangell series of communities. The 13.44 permit is a lifetime permit and can not be passed to offspring or designees I know that my 13.44 application was 65 pages long. It is easier to hunt the preserve with air transport than to either travel up the river or to hike into Hard Park hunting areas and to file all of the appropriate trespass permits and them get them approved.

 

[CJohnson]

Wilderness is wherever you spot dudes from Denver walking around in matching first lite camo and meateater rifles bragging about how many miles of trails they hiked during the first two days of 1st rifle season.

 

[Trap]

Easy - "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammelled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain”

Man has always been part of wilderness. We have been here since the beginning

 

[Trap]

Wilderness is wherever you spot dudes from Denver walking around in matching first lite camo and meateater rifles bragging about how many miles of trails they hiked during the first two days of 1st rifle season.

Nailed it