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The Times of India
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In 1956, Howard Zahniser began drafting America’s wilderness law; after 66 drafts and eight years of campaigning, he died months before it protected 9.1 million acres

Somewhere in the National Archives lies draft number 66 of a bill that most Americans have never read, yet its language quietly preserves the very landscapes that define the American wilderness today. The person who drafted all these 66 bills did not get the chance to see it turned into law. He missed out on it by just four months.

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