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WildernessArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlChristian Science MonitorThe bill would officially designate land in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia as wilderness. House Votes to Protect 2 Million Acres of Wilderness - 25 Mar 2009 BloombergIt would add 2 million acres, or about 800000 hectares, in nine states to the National Wilderness Preservation System. That system currently consists of 10 Idaho Congressmen Applaud Wilderness Bill - 25 Mar 2009 KIVI-TVIdaho lawmakers are applauding the House's passage of a public lands bill that designates Gem State acreage as wilderness. The bill includes Senator Mike NM areas benefit from wilderness legislation - 25 Mar 2009 KVIAThe associate director of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Nathan Newcomer, says today's a great day for all New Mexicans. Congress voted to set aside Wilderness bill stands to affect Montana | KXNet.com North Dakota News - 25 Mar 2009 Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck...(AP) Montana is not among the nine states where wilderness would be designated under a bill that has final congressional approval, but the measure would Wilderness bill includes funding for wolf-kill compensation - 25 Mar 2009 Great Falls TribuneThe provision was contained in a public lands bill with 171 provisions including the creation of wilderness in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Wilderness bill designates flood trail - 25 Mar 2009 Seattle TimesA wilderness bill approved by Congress on Wednesday also designates the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail. A wilderness bill approved by Congress on Clift and Cohn: Hatch could lead GOP from the wilderness - 25 Mar 2009 Pocono RecordIf the GOP wants to find its way out of the political wilderness like Democrats did, they need new 21st century ideas and leaders who can convey those ideas Burner/Reichert race - 25 Mar 2009 Seattle Post IntelligencerThe metaphor might not be apt, but the dam has burst on protection of wild rivers and wilderness designations by Congress. 145th Wilderness Anniversary Plans - 25 Mar 2009 Civil War NewsFriends of Wilderness Battlefield (FoWB) and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP) will host special activities over the May 2-3 Rep. Greg Walden Pleased With Passage Of Wilderness Bill - 25 Mar 2009 OPB NewsWalden worked for years with Portland Democrat, Earl Blumenauer, to increase Mount Hood’s wilderness areas. Several of the other newly protected areas are McKeon's Wilderness Bill Passes House, Goes To President - 25 Mar 2009 KHTS RadioThe measure includes Congressman Buck McKeon’s Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Mountains Wild Heritage Act, which gives wilderness designations McGain hoping to avoid Ashes wilderness - 25 Mar 2009 ABC OnlineLeg spinner Bryce McGain has not given up hope of winning a place in Australia's Ashes squad, despite his disastrous debut in the third Test loss to South Local Attorney To Lead Youth Into Wilderness - 25 Mar 2009 Brooklyn Daily EagleThe Alaska Project “will enable these young men to learn leadership skills through a challenging wilderness experience as well as providing them with a Wilderness focus of horsemen’s gathering in Helena - 25 Mar 2009 Helena Independent Record...“Last year, we packed over 10000 pounds of material into the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness for forest restoration projects for the Forest Service,� House to take up stalled wilderness bill - 25 Mar 2009 Forbes...the House is expected to take up a long-delayed bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. Papaua New Guinea forests reveal 56 new species - 25 Mar 2009 AFP..."The vast Kaijende Uplands and nearby valleys represent one of Papua New Guinea's largest undeveloped highlands wilderness areas, and all of it is under the House votes to expand wilderness in 9 states - 25 Mar 2009 The Daily AdvanceAP Democrats — Baca, Y; Becerra, Y; Berman, Y; Capps, Y; Cardoza, Y; Costa, Y; Davis, Y; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Filner, Y; Harman, Y; Honda, Y; Lee, Y; Lofgren, The Fredericksburg Area - 25 Mar 2009 Civil War NewsEncompassing over 8000 acres, including the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, the park attracts A bargain in the wilderness - 25 Mar 2009 Mormon TimesHow could all those grand things get under way in an organization split by a 900-mile divider -- a wilderness of sparse civilization, rutted roads, US House oks lands bill that permits refuge road planning - 25 Mar 2009 Anchorage Daily NewsThe legislation also authorizes water projects on Indian reservations, declares some rivers as wild and scenic and designates 2 million acres of wilderness House Approves Protections for West Virginia Forests - 25 Mar 2009 WTRFThis Omnibus Public Land Management Act will create the 6792-acre Roaring Plains West federal wilderness area in the Second Congressional District. We did object to the Wilderness Sheetz - 25 Mar 2009 The Free Lance-Star...when the McDonald's and Sheetz businesses were located at the gateway to the Wilderness battlefield ["Why didn't we object to the garish Sheetz first? Moose on the decline in Jackson Hole area - 25 Mar 2009 Jackson Hole NewsNow, with a moose population of about 1000, wildlife managers plan to issue 35 tags in the Gros Ventre River drainage and another 10 in the Teton Wilderness House has another shot at passing Omnibus Land Management Act - 25 Mar 2009 The Colorado Independent...only a simple majority needed to designate more than 2 million acres of wilderness in nine states, including Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. All right on the Rocky Mountain Front - 25 Mar 2009 Mother Nature NetworkUltimately, many would like to see much of the Front designated as wilderness, something only Congress can do. “We have the opportunity to keep the Rocky Officials discuss nature center - 25 Mar 2009 Branson Daily NewsThis property is just north of the Lakeside Forest Wilderness Area and owned by the city, which purchased it several years ago for the intersection American Century Revives NATIVE SON 4/14 At Gunston Center - 25 Mar 2009 Broadway WorldBob Bartlett, who delivered a smashing production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! two seasons ago, directs Native Son, working with a cast of 21. Fossil Creek Protected as Wild and Scenic River: - 25 Mar 2009 Center for Biological Diversity (press release)It also forms the boundary between Gila and Yavapai counties and flows through two congressionally designated wilderness areas — Fossil Springs Wilderness Private power protest goes viral - 25 Mar 2009 Globe and MailThey will take action on the day and say make sure we do green power right," said Gwen Barlee, policy director for the Wilderness Committee, Officials offer tips for staying safe during recreational activities - 25 Mar 2009 Farmington Daily Times..."Know where you are; know where you're going," said Rich Simmons, Bureau of Land Management recreation and wilderness specialist. Suspicious fire damages empty resort - 25 Mar 2009 Baxter Bulletin1:50 am near the Veterans Bridge when he noticed a large fire across the lake in the Henderson-Wilderness Point area, according to Edings report. iPhone vs. Stick - 25 Mar 2009 Backpacker MagazineLots of people have joined the iPhone club, but how many people still use a stick as a wilderness survival tool? That caveman standard might've fallen by Group urges more Western wilderness protection - Mar 23, 2009 ForbesNearly 85 years ago, he helped carve the world's first designated wilderness out of the Gila. Now, conservationists want the federal government to protect Elko road settlement headed back to federal court - Mar 23, 2009 San Jose Mercury News..."This has been a long battle," said Michael Freemen, an attorney for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund representing The Wilderness Society and Colorado-based “Paddles and Pints�: Rogue Wilderness Adventures Offers Trips that ... - Mar 24, 2009 Adventure Travel Media Source (press release)Two great Oregon traditions—whitewater rafting and micro brewed beer—will come together this Labor Day weekend as Rogue Wilderness Adventures launches their Dominguez-Escalante wilderness bill fails - Mar 19, 2009 Delta County IndependentThe legislation, a compilation of 170 separate bills, included within its more than two million new acres of wilderness designations a 210000-plus-acre Wilderness bill tamed by Congress - Mar 13, 2009 Estes Park Trail-GazetteBy John Cordsen The US House of Representatives failed to approve a massive public lands bill Wednesday that would have granted wilderness designation to Being prepared for the worst out in the wilderness - Mar 23, 2009 The Daily EvergreenTaking a course in first aid and at least adult CPR will help your confidence while traversing the wilderness. For those who want to take their wilderness Dave Henderson: Wilderness therapy presentation scheduled for ... - Mar 24, 2009 Ithaca JournalBrad M. Reedy, Ph.D., founder of Second Nature Wilderness Programs (www.snwp.com), will present an overview of the origin of wilderness-based therapies for Boys Scouts Learn Survival Skills at Wilderness Survival Camporee - Mar 21, 2009 WOWKBoy Scouts around the area came out for the Wilderness Survival Camporee. Scout troops learned by doing a variety of wilderness survival skills including Congress Expected To Approve Northwest Wilderness Bill - Mar 23, 2009 OPB NewsBY ROB MANNING Congress is poised this week to approve a massive expansion of federally protected Northwest wilderness and rivers, after years of effort. Barker: Carole King's Democratic ties give her wilderness clout - Mar 23, 2009 IdahoStatesman.comSo now that the Owyhees bill is nearly done, will another Idaho wilderness bill come soon? It may depend on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter 'Breast stroke' may have saved avalanche survivor in the Eagle Cap ... - Mar 20, 2009 The Oregonian - OregonLive.comThe March 7 avalanche in eastern Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness, however, killed Woodhouse's friend and fellow skier, Roger Roepke, 50, of Enterprise. Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act passes US Senate - Mar 19, 2009 Sky Hi Daily NewsBy Tonya Bina The Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act is one step closer to law, with the US Senate passing the Omnibus Public Land Management Act Wilderness of uncertainty - Mar 22, 2009 The Christian Century...by John M. Buchanan Theologian NT Wright says that even when you are in the Promised Land you are never far from the wilderness. I'm not the only preacher Orlando camping: Where urban jungle and wilderness meet - Mar 23, 2009 Examiner.comDisney’s Fort Wilderness, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL. OK, so you just can’t bear to be in the theme park Mecca without actually being on USA-All encourages SUWA Watch - Mar 24, 2009 Emery County ProgressThe Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance often referred to by the acronym SUWA. Ironically enunciating the acronym sounds an awful lot like "SUE-YA" perhaps Tamihere back from the wilderness - Mar 22, 2009 Stuff.co.nzBy TIM DONOGHUE - The Dominion Post IN THE PUBLIC EYE: Former Labour cabinet minister John Tamihere has been welcomed back from the political wilderness. [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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