4 International Journal of Wilderness AUGUST 2003 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2
S O U L O F T H E W I L D E R N E S S
FEATURES
Support Is Building for Global
Wilderness Conservation
BY CYRIL KORMOS and VANCE G. MARTIN
Wilderness conservation has always been a contentious
issue, even more than the creation of
national parks or other protected areas. Many
reasons account for this reality, including a negative response
by some development advocates to the idea of leaving
wildlands essentially untouched, the fact that wilderness
is sometimes misperceived as being antipeople, or that
