My father, Howard Zahniser, the primary author of the 1964 Wilderness Act, considered Tionesta, Pennsylvania his hometown. Zahnie, as my father was known, was not at the wilderness bill's signing, ...

Howard Zahniser didn't live to see President Lyndon Johnson sign into law the Wilderness Act on Sept. 3, 1964. Zahniser, a Tionesta resident and a fervent conservationist, was the principal author and ...

North Dakota State University professor Mark Harvey has written a biography of American wilderness preservation leader Howard Zahniser. The book is "Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to ...

Ed Zahniser spoke from experience. “Be persistent, be consistent, be actively patient in working for wilderness,” he said — and he should know. He grew up watching his father, Howard, the author of ...

I asked myself that question as I hiked into the White Cloud Mountains of central Idaho. I’d come here to report on an ugly internecine fight among environmentalists over the fate of this would-be ...

More than five decades ago, a fight over a proposed dam in northwest Colorado showed a coalition of conservation groups that they had the political clout to pass the Wilderness Act. The act, which ...

The following was written by Kirk Johnson, executive director for the nonprofit Warren-based Friends of Allegheny Wilderness (www.pawild.org). Without a doubt, Tionesta, Pennsylvania native, The ...

I support the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign in its totality. Howard Zahniser believed, “We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a greater community of life.” This ...

Pennsylvanian Howard Zahniser is regarded as the author of the Wilderness Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law 50 years ago, on Sept. 3, 1964. (U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE) With ...

I support the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign in its totality. Howard Zahniser spent the last several years of his life advocating for the Wilderness Act. He felt that to know wilderness is to know a ...