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Paul Cantrell

Designated wilderness is delicate and full of rules. The whole premise of it (complex! controversial! evolving! see here: 99percentinvisible.org/episode) is that we limit human impact, and let nature be nature.

That means dogs on leashes, no motor vehicles, no bicycles even! “Take only pictures, leave only footprints.”

Visitors, of course, do not know all these rules. Nor should we expect them to! And the PWV wants people to follow them.

How do they do that?

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99% InvisibleThe Wilderness Tool - 99% InvisibleImagine one of those old-timey lumberjack photos. The kind where two men in plaid are working away at a tree, holding opposite ends of a huge, human-length saw. That is a vintage crosscut saw. Some avid crosscut seekers spend hours mining websites like eBay and Craigslist. But they also search in person on saw hunting