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a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.

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Origin of wilderness area

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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How to use wilderness area in a sentence

More humans visiting trails and wilderness areas naturally leads to bear encounters, which sometimes result in human injury or even death.
Bear Attack Fatalities Are Up This Year. Is it a Trend, or Just a Coincidence?|syadron|August 1, 2021|Outside Online
Mount Sneffels towers 14,150 feet above the dramatic snow-peaked wilderness area that shares its name.
50 U.S. Wilderness Areas, Ranked|eriley|July 26, 2021|Outside Online
When nature calls and you don’t want to deal with the crowds and planning involved in visiting a national park, explore the country’s 111 million acres of designated wilderness areas.
50 U.S. Wilderness Areas, Ranked|eriley|July 26, 2021|Outside Online
Gates of the Arctic, in northern Alaska, is one of the most pristine and remote wilderness areas in the world.
How to Visit the Wildest National Park in the U.S.|mturner|July 8, 2021|Outside Online

Last year, a guy in a jet suit glided up a mountain to trial whether jet suits could be a useful tool for emergency responders in wilderness areas.
Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Fly Onto a Ship to Trial the Tech for Fighting Pirates|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|May 10, 2021|Singularity Hub
Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress|Dean Obeidallah|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
As he drove me back to the logging road, Frank told me about the area in his deep voice.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Never did I feel leaving anybody or any place so much, and Berlin seems to me like a great roaring wilderness.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
By their agreement with the owner, the Company have the right of mining under an area of 185 acres, at a royalty of 6d.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
If you did fail, you would try Exclusion, and you would find nothing which is the antithesis of the area of New York.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

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