Fish and Wildlife Service could be designated as Wilderness Areas, special reserves protected from human encroachment and development.

[4] Section II of the law listed the new Wilderness Areas to be established, along with their total acreage and the parent Forest of which they were part.

This section also ordered the Secretary of Agriculture, as responsible official for the Forest Service, to assemble a committee charged with the creation of a multipurpose resource development plan that would make recommendations for the use of two sections near the forest, a 92,000 acre “Management Area” and a 45,000 acre “Development Area,” both of which consisted of land-less roads contiguous with the Wilderness.

The completed management plan was then to be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture, along with the results of a comprehensive state and federal research program into local fish and game populations also ordered and funded in this bill.

The final section of the law ordered that maps and legal descriptions of the newly established Wilderness Areas should be delivered to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and that the boundaries and descriptions submitted should have the “same force and effect as if included in this Act.”