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— 50 Years of The Wilderness Act — Trappers Lake the ‘cradle of the wilderness’

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j.t. stangl photo Trappers Lake in 2012 — A key player in the Wilderness Act of 1964.
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Trappers Lake in 2012 — A key player in the Wilderness Act of 1964.
RBC I Trappers Lake, Colo., is significant because it was one of the birthplaces of the wilderness idea. Some even call it the “cradle of the wilderness” for this reason.

Fifty years ago, the Wilderness Act of 1964 defined areas like Trappers Lake as places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where…

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