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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State officials and others gathered at a small Adirondack cabin this week to mark the 50 th anniversary of the National Wilderness Act. On a Johnsburg hillside in Warren County, with an unobstructed ...

I was introduced to Ed Zahniser’s poetry via John Warren’s excellent and essential New York Almanac (www.newyorkalmanack.com), to which Mr. Zahniser is a regular contributor. Zahniser’s “Adirondack ...

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act of 1964. Eight years, 66 revisions and 18 hearings in the making, this landmark conservation legislation now ...