President Bush Signs Ojito Wilderness Act On Wednesday, October 26, 2005, President Bush signed the Ojito Wilderness Act into law (Public Law No. 109-94). The measure represents the first new wilderness law enacted during the 109th Congress. The Ojito Wilderness is also the first new wilderness area in New Mexico in 18 years and one of only a handful of wilderness areas designated on land managed by the BLM in the state.   Wilderness Brief: New Biography of Howard Zahniser Published Mark Harvey's new book, "Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act", details Zahniser's work to establish a coast to coast system of permanently protected federal lands -- what we now know as the National Wilderness Preservation System.