Jimmy Carter actually said...

This act adds 904,500 acres of some of Montana's most rugged and beautiful backcountry alpine lakes, meadows, and mountains to the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Context

Absaroka-Betroth Wilderness in Montana Statement on Signing S. 1671 Into Law

03/26/1978

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