New Mexico Magazine

Wild Times

n June 3, 1924, the Gila Wilderness became the first-of-its-kind wilderness area—a federally designated place with no roads, no cabins, no vehicles. Or, as Aldo Leopold—the Forest Service employee whose experience with the wonders of the Gila shaped the original vision—argued

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