It's a bit easier if you've been following this movement for some time. The Wildlands Project is another such proposal to turn huge sectors of North America into no trespassing zones for human beings.

They have gotten a lot more discreet since I started looking into this. The September 11, 1993 Science News, (no online link) had an excellent article on this subject. The Poppers show up in this article as well. At that time, they were proposing setting aside 139,000 square miles of the middle United States as buffalo preserve. By my calculation, that's about 89 million acres. Quite different from the million they're talking about now.

Dr. Reed Noss is a founder of the movement. From the Science News article:

To set up this and other protected open spaces, Noss calls for the establishment of "core" reserves off limits to all people and stripped of all human artifacts. "I suggest that at least half of the land area of the 48 conterminous states should be encompassed in core reserves and inner corridor zones," he wrote in the Wildlands proposal presented in June. Buffer zones, in which limited human activity could occur, would surround the cores and their corridors, insulating them from detrimental effects of more crowded, settled environments. Ultimately, inhabited land would exist as islands surrounded by this wilderness network.

And the maps they used to show are nowhere to be seen any more. I did pull a map of Florida out of the Science News article:

Dave Foreman (Earth First!) is a mover and shaker of the Wildlands Project.

Some Foreman quotes:

"The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the roads and the plowed lands."

"Commercial livestock grazing of federal and state lands cannot be justified ecologically or economically. Commercial logging, with the possible exception of small pole, post, and firewood sales, should be prohibited. Mining is an inappropriate use of public lands in virtually all cases. Vehicle use off established roads must be entirely prohibited. By freeing Forest Service, BLM, and state lands of such multiple-abuses, many roads and other developments could be closed. Roads necessary only for logging and grazing or recreational access should be closed. It may be necessary to allow some roads to remain open to official use for short time periods to allow active restoration in severely abused areas, or for reintroduction of extirpated species, but the majority of dirt and gravel roads on the public lands should be closed quickly."

A little more nervous now?