WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- President Biden issued the following proclamation on Aug. 31, 2022, honoring National Wilderness Month: * * * From the peaks of the Sierras to the rolling foothills of the Alleghenies, our Nation's wilderness boasts national treasures that provide opportunities for discovery, wonder, and serenity. They are also the current and ancestral homelands of Tribal Nations and Indigenous peoples, many of whom have deep cultural, historic, and spiritual connections to these places  more