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The Phillip Burton Wilderness is part of the 111 sq. mile (288 km2) Point Reyes National Seashore located about northeast of San Francisco, California. Total wilderness land is 33,373 acres〔(Statistics page NPS )〕 which includes a roadless "potential wilderness" area of over and is the only designated wilderness along the California coast. The National Park Service manages the wilderness. The wilderness is named for California's Congressman Phillip Burton who served in the US House of Representatives from 1964 til his death on April 10, 1983. The US Congress passed legislation (Public Law 94-544) in 1976 that created the Point Reyes Wilderness, and in 1985, Congress, in recognition of Burton's dedication to wilderness preservation, especially his work on the California Wilderness Act of 1984, renamed the wilderness after him (P.L. 99-68).
==Wilderness Areas== There are three separate units: Southeastern- this area protects the Inverness Ridge down to a long coastline and is the largest unit. Within this area are forests of Douglas-fir and California buckeye, coastal foothills, terraces, caves, beaches and several small inland lakes as well as the high point of Mount Wittenberg. The four trailcamps are in this section, with Wildcat and Coast camps located near shore, and Sky and Glen camps inland. Each camp has different numbers of individual sites with 52 sites total and four group sites. Central-this section, which is separated from the southeastern unit by Limintour Road, protects the crest of the Inverness Ridge, the east shore of Estero de Limintour and the Limintour Spit. An endemic (restricted to one area) and rare coastal pine known as the Bishop pine grows here. North-this segment includes the Tomales Point area, which is an open grassland peninsula that separates the Pacific Ocean to the west from the Tomales Bay, a submerged valley, on the east. A reserve for the reintroduced tule elk is in this section. Although there are no trailcamps, boat-in camping is allowed on Tomales Bay. Nearly half of the Point Reyes National Seashore is within the Phillip Burton Wilderness and has one of the most diverse landscapes of the California coast. The United Nations' Biosphere Program, which began in the 1970s to preserve the world's major biotic regions, included the Point Reyes area in 1988 when it designated the Central California Coast Biosphere Reserve (now the Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve) in recognition of the vast array of plants, animals and ecosystems. This is the first U.S. biosphere reserve firmly integrated within a large metropolitan area that is home to over 8 million people.〔( Report on the UN Madrid meeting. )〕 There are at least 42 rare and endangered plants of the more than 850 plant species identified. Almost 40 species of land mammals plus a dozen marine mammals such as the harbor seal live or migrate through this area. Bird species counts are well over 400. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phillip Burton Wilderness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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