Wilderness\\nareas are federally-owned public lands managed by the federal government\\nthrough four agencies, the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife\\nService, Forest Service, and National Park Service. When the National Wilderness\\nPreservation System started in 1964, only 54 wilderness areas were included.\\nSince then, the system has grown nearly every year to include more than 800. The time component of this service is based on the year in which the wilderness was originally designated (additions may have occurred in subsequent years). Overall,\\nhowever, only about 5% of the entire United States\\u2014an area slightly larger than\\nthe state of California\\u2014 is protected as wilderness. Because Alaska contains\\njust over half of America's wilderness, only about 2.7% of the contiguous\\nUnited States\\u2014an area about the size of Minnesota\\u2014is protected as wilderness. To\\nlearn more about wilderness areas, visit\\u00a0Wilderness Connect, the authoritative\\nsource for wilderness information online. Wilderness Connect also publishes two other map resources:
Although wilderness areas are federally-owned, some areas\\ncontain non-federal parcels within their boundaries. Non-federal lands within\\nsome wilderness areas are included as part of this feature dataset as a\\nseparate layer. Termed inholdings or edgeholdings, these lands are\\nprivately-owned or owned by local governments, state governments or Indigenous Nations. Hundreds of inholdings and edgeholdings exist across the wilderness\\nsystem. Generally, however, they are small compared to the size of the wilderness\\nitself. Since the rules and regulations that apply to wilderness areas do not\\napply to these non-federally-owned parcels, it is important for wilderness\\nvisitors to know their location to avoid trespassing where access is not\\nallowed. The owners of inholdings and edgeholdings can develop these parcels\\n(as long as developments do not affect the character of the surrounding\\nwilderness lands) and they retain special and limited access to them, sometimes, but not always, by motorized means.
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