Labels:text | font | screenshot | white OCR: building, agriculture, sport and mineral exploitation are threatening the deserts in a number of different ways. The California Desert Protection Act (CDPA) was passed by Congress in October 1994. This Act designates certain federal lands in the California desert as wilderness, to be managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service or the US Fish and Wildlife Service. One of the basic ideas behind the CDPA is that wilderness a s area