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...... The negatives of the Act can be catalogued as difficulties in administration, designation, and management of these wild areas. For example, wilderness areas are designated inside existing public lands, so they do not create new wildland areas; they simply change the designation of existing land. This creates additional management issues for wilderness areas, including ensuring that the public does not overuse the areas, and ensuring no improvements or roads are added to the area. They also have to monitor items such as air quality in wilderness areas, and sometimes, this can place an additional burden on management staff in the managing agency
Of course, a new designation created many more management burdens for wildlife managers. For example, management must consistently monitor the impact recreation has on areas of the wilderness, and decide whether to close those areas to recreation if it seems they are being overused. One wilderness management expert notes, "Campsite impact assessments and monitoring methods range from photographic approaches to condition class approaches to a more intensive quantitative measurement of multi-parameters" (Glidden, 2005, p. 1). Managers had to develop methodologies to measure impacts of different areas, and staff must be able to implement these methodologies consistently. There

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