Wilderness/Roadless
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The Doña Ana County Wilderness debate. Wilderness bill deepens gap between groups. Las Cruces Sun News. The good news is that Representative Steve Pearce is running for the U.S. Senate where he is going to be beaten badly. He has been a real problem for the sound management of public lands in New Mexico on…
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This is from Wilderness and Environmental Medicine: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 245–249. Also avoid areas with high human use. Abstract.
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Whatever your take on whether the quid pro quo is worth it with wilderness designation, we’re in a different political atmosphere and that is beginning to show results – the bills are getting better : Simpson removes criticized portion of Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill – Idaho Statesman 94 federal acres that would have been transfered…
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Yesterday I posted about the passage of the bill to protect the vast Wyoming Mountain range from oil and gas — a big matter for Wyoming. The same committee also passed Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s “Owyhee bill,” which failed at the last minute at the end of the last Congress. This has been very controversial…
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First new wilderness in state in 2 decades is easily accessible. By Jennifer A. Dlouhy. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The new Wild Sky Wilderness Area is 106,000 acres. It failed in the last Congress when House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo killed at. Due in part to strong action by conservationists across America, he is no longer…
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Owyhee Canyonlands protections back before Congress. By Rocky Barker. Idaho Statesman
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This article in New West is a good update on the status of the National Forest roadless area issue. Roadless without a map. Hazy Horizon for West’s Roadless Lands. By David Frey. In fact there is a very good map of the roadless areas on-line. It is an interactive map to which you can contribute…
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As I speculated in a number of threads, the hot new issue over guns in the national parks is indeed a political invention for this presidential campaign with the primary intent to stop a large number, over 60, relatively low controversy land protection measures that had been rolled into an omnibus bill. Those promoting “the…