[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR293.2]

[Page 365]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 293_WILDERNESS_PRIMITIVE AREAS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  293.2  Objectives.

    Except as otherwise provided in the regulations in this part, 
National Forest Wilderness shall be so administered as to meet the 
public purposes of recreational, scenic, scientific, educational, 
conservation, and historical uses; and it shall also be administered for 
such other purposes for which it may have been established in such a 
manner as to preserve and protect its wilderness character. In carrying 
out such purposes, National Forest Wilderness resources shall be managed 
to promote, perpetuate, and, where necessary, restore the wilderness 
character of the land and its specific values of solitude, physical and 
mental challenge, scientific study, inspiration, and primitive 
recreation. To that end:
    (a) Natural ecological succession will be allowed to operate freely 
to the extent feasible.
    (b) Wilderness will be made available for human use to the optimum 
extent consistent with the maintenance of primitive conditions.
    (c) In resolving conflicts in resource use, wilderness values will 
be dominant to the extent not limited by the Wilderness Act, subsequent 
establishing legislation, or the regulations in this part.