America's Last Four Truly Wild Areas

A project compiles satellite and land-use data to map human influence on land and identify that last remaining pristine areas of wilderness in the U.S.

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August 2, 2005, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Where is the last of the truly wild? The Wildlife Conservation Society, with the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, assembled satellite and land-use data to plot the extent of the global human footprint...

Alaska holds the vast majority of leastaltered lands in the United States. In the more settlement-friendly lower 48, the wildest areas have become islands ringed by interstates, farms, towns and cities, making up only 0.9 percent of land."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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