... steps in the process of defining what makes a specific tract landscape is to choose where the boundaries of our reference frame lies. Frames are discussed as being integral to the definition of landscape; it breaks the entire wilderness into smaller pieces, into several landscapes rather than one whole landscape. Once the area of land is framed, as viewers we begin to pick out the elements we favor promoting those features of the vista and downplaying or even ignoring others. This sorting process allows us to see only those things that are pleasurable, Andrews makes the conjecture that, "A landscape, then, is what the viewer has selected from the land, edited and modified in accordance with certain conventional ideas about what 2constitutes a 'good view'. It is land organized and reduced to the point where the human eye can comprehend its breadth and depth within one frame or short scan."6 ...

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