The Bob Marshall Wilderness Country

Marshall's Montana years began in Missoula, where he arrived at twenty-four to study how forests regrow after fire. His 1930 essay, The Problem of the Wilderness, argued that wild country needed organized people willing to fight for it, and in 1935 he was a principal founder of the Wilderness Society, paying most of its early bills. He died of heart failure on a night train from Washington to New York on November 11, 1939, at thirty-eight. The Forest Service designated the wilderness in his name in 1940, and the Wilderness Act made it permanent in 1964.

Where it stands

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