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Multi-State Wilderness Bill Introduced
March 14th, 2008We applaud the introduction this week of the “Protecting America’s Wild Places Act of 2008,” (H.R. 5610), which when enacted will add nearly a half million acres of public land across five states to the National Wilderness Preservation System for the use and enjoyment of all Americans. All Americans should appreciate the commitment of Representatives Nick Rahall, Raúl Grijalva, Jim Costa, Peter DeFazio, Tom Udall, and Mary Bono Mack for working to move this bill forward.
Campaign previews 2008 wilderness legislation
January 31st, 2008
In an interview on E&ETV's OnPoint show, Campaign for America's Wilderness Executive Director Mike Matz discusses the prospects for wilderness legislation in the coming year. He explains what the main obstacles are for wilderness issues and previews the Campaign's new ad campaign focusing on encouraging lawmakers and the public to address wilderness issues. Matz also explains how energy development may affect wilderness areas and wildlife.
New bill would protect West Virginia's Wild Mon
January 29th, 2008
We applaud West Virginia Representatives Nick Rahall and bill sponsors Shelley Moore Capito and Alan Mollohan for introducing the first new wilderness bill of 2008 -- the Wild Monongahela Act, which would protect 47,000 acres of new wilderness in the Monongahela National Forest.
New 'Common Ground' Ad
January 28th, 2008
As the new session of Congress gets underway, the Campaign is reminding lawmakers and the public that Americans from all walks of life and all regions of the country support wilderness protection. Our new ad, which reflects the diversity of support for ensuring a legacy of wild places for our children and grandchildren, will appear January 30 in The New York Times' western regional edition.
Wilderness 2007: The Year in Review
December 27th, 2007The 110th Congress, now at the midpoint, has been an exciting and eventful time for wilderness legislation.
Coming together to preserve our lands
December 19th, 2007San Diego Union-Tribune (CA)
December 19th, 2007
The lump of coal in every American's stocking this holiday season is this: we lose four acres of open space each minute in this country, a government agency announced. That's 6,000 acres a day of meadows turned into housing tracts, farm fields in Iowa and Nebraska paved into parking lots, ranches transformed into shopping malls on the outskirts of Boise and Bozeman, and pine forests in Alabama and Georgia chopped down.
For the year just about to end, a total of 2,190,000 acres succumbed to development, an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, lost forever.
Reichert bill will expand Washington's Alpine Lakes Wilderness
November 8th, 2007
Introduced by Rep. Reichert (R-WA), the bill will expand the Alpine Lakes wilderness outside of Seattle, Washingon by more than 22,000 acres and give wild and scenic status protection to nearly 10 miles of the Pratt River. The Alpine Lakes Wilderness was designated by Congress in 1976, but the bill failed to include some of the area's key low-elevation forests.
U.S. House Clears Bill to Protect Virginia Wilderness — Measure is second wilderness bill passed this year
October 23rd, 2007
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1011, the Virginia Ridge and Valley Act of 2007, which protects 55,000 acres of the Jefferson National Forest in southwestern Virginia as wilderness, wilderness study areas or scenic areas.
Bono and Boxer Introduce “Visionary Proposal” to Protect Riverside County, California’s Natural Heritage
September 27th, 2007
Congresswoman Mary Bono (R-CA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced the introduction of the California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act, which would designate 191,000 acres throughout Riverside County as wilderness, and designate 31 river miles of the North Fork San Jacinto River, Bautista Creek, and Palm Canyon as wild and scenic.
