...continual efforts to gain cutting rights in the park. The final amendment, composed in June 1894, reads: "The lands of the state now owned or hereafter acquired,...the timber thereon be sold, removed, or destroyed." The amendment was approved by a large majority of the voting population, but what they approved was...

...from being sold or destroyed under an 1894 amendment to the New York State Constitution directing that "the lands of the State now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve... shall be forever Animal lovers will find a virtual menagerie here. Black bears tend to avoid open spaces...

...1894 referendum, New Yorkers added the now-famous "forever wild" clause to the state constitution: The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,...private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.5 The history of wilderness protection efforts in the Adirondacks deeply influenced wilderness...

...Convention of 1894, when 12.2. delegates voted unanimously to amend the state constitution to guarantee that "the lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,...law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands." 11 Schaefer and Richard were both struck by the quantity and quality of Zahniser's questions about...

...practicable by [competitive] examinations." This constitution also showed an interest in conservation: the "forest preserve as now fixed by law . . . shall be forever kept as wild forest lands."32 A different kind of conservation pervaded southern constitutions in the last part of the...

...persons employed by public agencies or by contractors performing work for public entities. Conservation. "The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,...law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands." So begins Article XIV. After that grand, succinct declaration, it goes on in great detail to do such...

...25. 111. NY Const., art. XIV, § 1. Sometimes known as the "forever wild" provision, it provides that the "lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired,...law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands." Ibid. 112. Ala. Const., amend. 543. According to the constitution, these lands are to be protected...

...state constitutional convention in Albany included an article in its revised constitution that read, "The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired,...fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands."38 In the fall of 1894, the state's voters overwhelmingly approved the new constitution, extending...

...amending the 1892 statute with a clause that remains law today: The lands of the state, now owned and hereafter acquired, constituting the Forest Preserve,...as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forestlands. They shall not be leased, sold, or exchanged, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed,...

...of wilderness when it proclaimed that "the lands now and hereafter constituting the Forest Preserve shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased or taken by any person or corporation, public or private." s Historian Philip G. Terrie has pointed...