1. Wilderness Act of 1964 "a wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain" 2. roadless land legally classified as a component area of the National Wilderness Preservation System and managed to protect its qualities of naturalness, solitude, and opportunity for primitive types of recreation —note wilderness is usually of sufficient size to make its maintenance in such a state feasible and to provide opportunities for solitude and self-reliant recreationThis definition last updated 08/19/2008