Following is a list of wilderness bills passed by the 109th Congress and signed into law by President Bush. These bills permanently protect a total of 1,017,500 acres.

NEW MEXICO
Ojito Wilderness Act
This measure designated the 11,000-acre Ojito Wilderness Study Area northwest of Albuquerque as wilderness and allowed certain adjacent land managed by the BLM to be purchased by the Pueblo of Zia as open space.
>> More about the Ojito Wilderness Act

PUERTO RICO
Caribbean National Forest Wilderness Act
This measure established the 10,000-acre El Toro Wilderness area in Puerto Rico's Caribbean National Forest. This tropical rainforest is home to the Puerto Rican parrot, one of the ten most endangered birds in the world, and to seven other endangered species. Though the Caribbean is the smallest of our 155 national forests, it ranks first in number of tree species with 240. 
>> Explore the Caribbean National Forest Wilderness Area

UTAH
Cedar Mountain Wilderness
National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2006
The Utah Test and Training Range Protection Act, which was included in the 2006 Defense Authorization Act, prevented high-level nuclear waste storage in Utah’s West Desert, preserved military training capabilities via UTTR, and designated 100,000 acres of magnificent, desert land known as the Cedar Mountains as Wilderness.

CALIFORNIA
Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act
This measure created 275,000 acres of wilderness areas and 21 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers in California’s Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake and Napa Counties.

NEW HAMPSHIRE & VERMONT
New England Wilderness Act of 2006
This law designated 42,000 acres of wilderness in six different parcels in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest and two areas totaling 34,500 acres in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. The measure also created the Mount Moosalamoo National Recreation Area in Vermont, a 15,857-acre tract south and east of Middlebury.

NEVADA
White Pine County Wilderness
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006
The White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act was part of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006. It established 12 wilderness areas and expanded two others, thereby adding 558,000 acres of national forest and BLM lands in White Pine County to the National Wilderness Preservation System. In addition to designating wilderness, this act released portions of wilderness study areas, transferred land from the Forest Service to the BLM, authorized a study of an ORV trail, transferred acreage to the Ely Shoshone Tribe and, among other items, authorized restoration projects.