[1] Although it was originally untitled, the bill signed by Ford has come to be known as the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act.

However, six years later, the Forest Service opposed congressional designation of new wilderness areas in West Virginia with land use histories of logging.

[5] The organization described the bill as necessary because eastern areas "do not meet the strict criteria of the Wilderness Act."

Senator Henry Jackson warned of this "serious and fundamental misinterpretation of the Wilderness Act" and pledged himself to correct the falsity of the so-called purity theory.

[6] The final legislation adopted some elements of the Forest Service-inspired bill, but it did not alter the definition and intent of the Wilderness Act of 1964.