Wilderness Recommendations for the Petrified Forest National Park
National Park Service. 1967. Wilderness Recommendations for the Petrified Forest National Park. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This report lists locations and explanations of the Park Service Wilderness Classification System, public hearing records, and the justification for wilderness declaration of the areas. The following recommendations are based upon careful study of the park, the views presented at the public hearing, and the written responses concerning the preliminary wilderness proposal described in the appended Hearing Officer's Report. 1. That a wilderness of 50,260 acres within Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, as defined in Exhibit A, be designated by an Act of Congress. The park contains 94,189.33 acres all of which are Federally owned. 2. That, if authorized, this wilderness be administered in accordance with the Act of August 25, 1916, establishing the National Park Service, and the statutory authority under which this unit of the National Park System was created, as supplemented by applicable provisions of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964.