Success! 2 Million New Acres of Wilderness!
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- Tremendous day for Wilderness
- Wilderness bill back on track
- U.S. Senate Passes Huge Public Lands Bill!
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 on March 25th and President Obama signed the act into law on March 30th. We put together this video as a tribute to all of you across the country that helped make this bill, 15 years in the making, a reality. Thank you!
The bill will permanently protect more than 2 million acres of wilderness in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The bill also makes permanent the National Landscape Conservation System, comprised of 26 million acres of the best lands and waters administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and provides additional protections to more than 1.2 million acres of wild landscapes in the Wyoming Range of western Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest.
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Mike Anderson, J.D.
Mike has been with The Wilderness Society since 1985. His main focus is national forest management and policy, ranging from roadless area conservation to watershed restoration. He also helps coordinate all of The Wilderness Society's litigation activities.
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Nice! What did you do for
Nice!
What did you do for Earth Day 09?
People wrote here that htey have made for Earth planet in this day!
www.u-n-i-v-e-r-s-e.com/forum/earth-day-take-action-t130.html
Earth Day
I have read many of the comments and commend all of you. Finally, I feel that we are moving in the right direction. I know there are many warriors out there whom have been dedicated for a long time, and your heart and souls deserve any good news for fighting the good fight, not to mention a great big hug. I cannot speak for the planet, but I can say thank you from me. I hopped on board the real planet earth when I was sixteen years old. Now I am thirty-seven. Many of us knew a very long time ago how we should treat everything, and while we still have a long way to go, finally the wider world is beginning to listen. This planet is a great big ecosystem, both naturally and socially. Once we truly realize this, we become deserving of great things in the future.
Wilderness
Life is the Complex of Living/non living Beings and their interrelations. Wilderness is real Life. Many Thanks for all your work to save this Life-Soul-Mind that is all Earth, or Ecosystem. Saving any single ecosystem is saving One, and many, living-sensing Beings.
Guido
Milano, Italy
guido1936@interfree.it
Many Thanks!
Many thanks to The Wilderness Society for keeping us informed and giving us an avenue to pass our messages and votes to those that ultimately decide America's fate. A special thank you to President Obama, for just being the incredible human being he is, giving us the chance to get back our Amercia. Knowing that we were successful in keeping and adding unspoiled, untouched, wilderness is awesome!
Christine
Thank you .....thank you
Thank you .....thank you ...... thank you ! !
To all that were involved and cared and wrote and gave money ,time,themselves...Thank you!
Thank the Lord !
Thank you President Obama !
U.S. Citizens Liberties are
U.S. Citizens Liberties are once again stolen, by Liberal who think they can save the world.
Shame On You.
Shame on you
No, shame on you. Cynicism rots on the vine my friend. The scope is much wider than the U.S. and your shallow, narrow view. To call someone a liberal reaffirms my last statement. Like you might say about liberals who 'hate' America - If you don't like it get it, get off the planet.
Yep this is a great day!!!!!!
Yep this is a great day!!!!!!
I think a 'thank you' should
I think a 'thank you' should be given to President Obama for his HUGE part in making this happen. Seriously, couldn't we send a video to him?
Thank You
Its one of our species true moments to finally have a real human being in the Oval Office.
Yep it is a great day for
Yep it is a great day for wilderness projects. Another 2 million acres that will be mostly inaccessible to anyone unable to hike or ride a horse. If you think this is wrong, then you have little experience exploring areas with a "wilderness" designation. Try doing a little camping on the North Fork of the American River or along the spine of Petersen Mountain, or at any of the lakes in the Desolation Wilderness.
A wilderness designation goes much farther than ensuring that no new roads are constructed. It actually ensures that 99% of existing roads in any "wilderness" area are closed to all motor vehicle traffic. This also ensures that anyone wanting to explore the "wilderness" will need to be able to hike or ride a horse, sometimes several miles over brutal terrain, if they want to see more than the edges of the area.
Just one of the many issues that make the current standard "wilderness" designation problematic and to some unacceptable.
is ignorance really bliss?
Yeah, what a bummer, eh? You can't drive your big four by four out there and tear it up with your mountain bikes and four wheelers. Can't fill up that tank and burn it up all in the name of enjoying the environment. I'm really feeling for you. (<---- just in case you missed it, that's called sarcasm)
I think you are missing the point. It is to PRESERVE WILDLIFE AND WILDERNESS which really has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with YOU and YOUR PERSONAL ENJOYMENT of said wilderness.
Wilderness, glad it will be there
I am getting older and I won't get to see much of this, but I am just glad that it will be there for those who
will make the effort to experience the magnificence of the varied wildernesses across this beautiful country.
I have had a few chances to glimpse some of it. To see unspoiled beauty and wildness is truly an awesome
experience. I can't imagine what is in the minds of those who only see it all as places to be despoiled for
riches. There are no greater riches than the beauty of this earth. May there be more such successes. Roberta
Ditto ! ! ! Now if only
Ditto ! ! ! Now if only other countries can do the same. Thank you President Obama from the bottom of my heart, and even though I am not able to go see these fantastic and majestic places, I am thrilled that they will be preserved and protected from the ravages of some. The Planet thanks all who have been, over the years, working for this outcome. Happy Earth Day everyone.
Nancy Sagatelian
Pasadena, CA