Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
Kirk Johnson, Executive Director, Friends of Allegheny Wilderness "Today the U.S. House of Representatives finally passed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act [H.R. 146] which when signed into law by the President will protect in perpetuity as wilderness under the Wilderness Act of 1964 two million acres of our Federal public lands in their natural condition for future generations of Americans...
Democracy for New Mexico (Free subscription) | 03/19/2009
If at first you don't succeed ... By a vote of 77-20, the U.S. Senate today passed legislation to designate more than 17,000 acres in San Miguel County as wilderness. The Sabinoso Wilderness Act, legislation authored by Senator Tom Udall...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Peter A. Appel (University of Georgia - School of Law) has posted Wilderness and the Judiciary on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines how the decisions of four land management agencies governing wilderness areas under the Wilderness Act...
QandO (Free subscription) | 01/15/2009
C ongress wants to put the arctic region of Alaska off limits to oil production permanently. The Udall-Eisenhower Artic Wilderness Act was reintroduced in the House on January 6th. It provides for placing the "Arctic coastal plain" under the aegis of the National Wilderness Preservation System so as to prevent any drilling activities in the are whatsoever. Inclusion of Arctic Coastal Plain-...
SquareState.net - Front Page (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
This week, Congresswoman Diana DeGette wrote that she will be reintroducing the Colorado Wilderness Act . She wrote about it here . Many of us in the environmental and recreation community have been waiting for this. I couldn't wait to write about some of the 62 BLM gems the legislation proposes. So here is my first effort to inform and inspire attention, dialog and action. I was a member of the board...
Democracy for New Mexico (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
From the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: This week, the Sabinoso Wilderness Act of 2007, H.R. 2632, will head to the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. This will be the second wilderness bill...
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