RESEARCH RESERVES
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THE USE AND ADMINISTRATION OF
WILDERNESS RESERVES
By C. A. Harwell and G. C. Ruhle
The establishment of wilderness areas in our national parks is either
firmly believed to be a wise proceeding or is looked upon with
indifference. Their use is indeed a moot question. It might be wise to
let them alone, unused, say for one hundred years, as examples for study
of the influences of factors from the outside. Certainly we cannot
expect them to remain immutable in a surrounding that is rapidly
changing.
Wilderness areas should serve as a refuge for game and wild life,
especially such that apparently has no safe retreat elsewhere; for
example, mountain lions and wolverenes. How to keep it inviolable to
poachers and yet keep out protectors is a nice question. 
