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Secretary Vilsack to Hear About Forest Jobs and Recreation Act
March 5th, 2010Public News Service
March 5th, 2010
DEER LODGE, Mont. - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is visiting Montana Saturday to guage how people in the region feel about a proposed new law to manage the state's forest land. His visit includes a community meeting in Deer Lodge to hear local views on Sen. Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. Considered by its sponsor as collaborative effort between environmentalists, the timber industry and other stakeholders, the Act would attempt to balance the needs of all who have an interest in the state's forest areas for things such as recreation, logging, fire management and hunting. Sec. Vilsack's visit is being viewed as "due diligence."
Wilderness plan for Buffalo Gap a hot topic
March 3rd, 2010Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD)
March 3rd, 2010
Under a canopy of snow, blades of prairie grass lay brown and dormant, awaiting the renewal of spring.
But in three areas of South Dakota, this year's thaw signals another possible revival - the chance to preserve some 50,000 acres of public land within the Buffalo Gap National Grassland as a wilderness area.
Pew Cheers Action to Boost Alpine Lakes Wilderness
February 24th, 2010Washington State Wilderness Advances to House Floor
The House Natural Resources Committee today approved the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 176), sending it to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for action. The measure, introduced by Representative David Reichert (R-WA), would expand the existing 394,000-acre Alpine Lakes Wilderness by more than 22,000 acres, and designate parts of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie and Pratt Rivers as wild and scenic. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has introduced companion legislation, which is now before the full Senate.
Opinion: Collect facts before cutting into Tester’s forest bill
February 22nd, 2010The Missoulian (MT)
February 19th, 2010
A recent op-ed by Howie Wolke (Feb. 16), in which he claims that Sen. Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation bill was written behind closed doors, needs addressing.
Hundreds attend Senate hearing on wilderness bill
February 16th, 2010The New Mexico Independent
February 15th, 2010
U.S. Rep. Harry Teague among those who show up; Bingaman says there's not yet a timeline for moving the legislation forward
Hundreds of people showed up in Las Cruces today for an official U.S. Senate hearing on a proposal from Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, D-N.M., to protect more than 300,000 acres of land in Doña Ana County.
New Mexico Youth Conservation Educator Named “Wilderness Hero”
February 8th, 2010Roberta Salazar honored by national group
The Pew Environment Group's Campaign for America's Wilderness announced today that Roberta Salazar of Taos, New Mexico, is being honored as this month's "Wilderness Hero" for working to connect young people with nature. Ten years ago, Salazar made a personal commitment to ensure that Northern New Mexico kids grow up recognizing the importance of protecting the land and the healthy ecosystems on which they depend.
Basalt Mountain Hidden Gem of the Week
February 5th, 2010Aspen Daily News (CO)
February 5th, 2010
This is the first in a weekly series profiling the areas proposed by the Hidden Gems campaign for federal wilderness designation. The campaign, led by Carbondale's Wilderness Workshop, calls for more than 400,000 acres to be protected as wilderness. Most of the land is in the White River and Gunnison national forests, and includes areas in Pitkin, Gunnison, Eagle and Summit counties. An act of the U.S. Congress is required to designate new wilderness.
Opinion; Forest Jobs Bill: Working Together for Montana
February 3rd, 2010The New West (MT)
February 1st, 2010
The numbers are painful. Last year, 1,700 Montanans lost jobs in our timber industry. Timber harvest across our state plummeted a staggering 40 percent. Several mills-including Montana's largest-boarded up.
If we do nothing, Montanans who work in the woods will get hit even harder. It's an industry that today directly employs just over 7,000 Montanans. Thousands more rely on the industry indirectly.
If we do nothing-or if we let partisan politics trump the ideas of Montanans who worked together for years on a common sense solution-all those jobs will be on the rocks.
Campaign for America's Wilderness and Pew Environment Group Join Forces
January 28th, 2010WASHINGTON – (Thursday, January, 28, 2010) -- The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that effective February 1, 2010, the Campaign for America’s Wilderness (CAW) will become part of the Pew Environment Group, expanding Pew’s work to protect public lands. For more than two decades, Pew has been dedicated to securing lasting safeguards for wilderness of the United States, Canada and most recently Australia. The result has been the preservation of tens of millions of acres of pristine landscapes critical to providing clean water, healthy fish and wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation and a buffer for the impacts of climate change. A cornerstone of this effort has been the Campaign for America’s Wilderness, which Pew established in 2002.
New Wilderness Bill for Oregon
January 28th, 2010
The Campaign for America's Wilderness hailed the introduction today of The Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2010, which will designate over 16,000 acres of wilderness in the Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven areas near the lower John Day River as good for Oregonians and all Americans.
