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Description

This document is the completed effort of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wilderness Fellows program to develop a monitoring strategy and evaluate the status of the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness. This document gives context to the status of the Lacassine wilderness and identifies the major management challenges associated with maintaining wilderness character. This document is intended to be a reference source for readers interested in understanding the wilderness and to detail the natural and anthropogenic impacts that threaten the state of wilderness character. The Lacassine Wilderness Character Monitoring Plan was developed using distinct measures that assess the following: untrammeled quality, natural quality, undeveloped quality, and solitude or primitive and unconfined recreation quality.