What is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW)? The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), as we know it, was established in 1978 by Congress through BWCA Wilderness Act. This Act restricted logging, mining, and most motorized access to this 1,000,000+ acre area in northern Minnesota. The BWCAW is part of and managed by the Superior National Forest.
Vive is defined as French for live or long life. An example of vive is when a group yells out Vive le tour! during the Tour de France bike race. long live (someone or something specified)!: used in exclamations of acclaim. Origin of vive.
Vivisection refers to the dissection of a living animal, often for the purposes of physiological investigation and nowadays usually under heavy sedation. However, the term is no longer widely used, in part because more sophisticated techniques have superseded it for many applications.