Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Argumentation & Advocacy
Publisher
The American Forensic Association
Publication Date
Winter 2002
Volume
38
Abstract
Almost every spring for the past eight years, I made a phone call to Maryland in order to get into Minnesota. An office in Maryland houses the reservation system for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a one-million acre preserve in the northeastern tip of Minnesota that is the most visited unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System. This office acts as a medium of and barrier to my access to the Wilderness; it issues permits to groups of people wishing to enter the Boundary Waters, and it limits the number of parties that may enter at a given point on a particular day. Although the Wilderness is public land, I must first gain permission from a state institution to enter the Boundary Waters.
Keywords
rhetoric, wilderness access
Rights
© 2002 The American Forensic Association
Recommended Citation
Schwarze, Steven J., "Rhetorical Traction: Definitions and Institutional Arguments in Judicial Opinions About Wilderness Access" (2002). Communication Studies Faculty Publications. 12.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/communications_pubs/12