Popeye
Well-Known Member
After 8 years of a regime that gave a wink and a nod to those that would rape the environment, this is a welcome change...
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=15&sid=150469
A bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness will be signed Monday by President Barack Obama.
The legislation expands wilderness protection from California's Sierra Nevada mountains to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.
The bill _ a collection of nearly 170 separate measures _ represents one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in a quarter-century. It confers the government's highest level of protection on land in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
It also allows Alaska to go forward with a planned airport access road in a remote wildlife refuge near the Bering Sea.
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=15&sid=150469