Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to help organize and participate in one of the first trail stewardship projects in one of Idaho’s newest Wilderness areas, Big Jacks Creek Wilderness. It was an experience that was physically challenging and richly rewarding. The Wilder
Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to help organize and participate in one of the first trail stewardship projects in one of Idaho’s newest Wilderness areas, Big Jacks Creek Wilderness. It was an experience that was physically challenging and richly rewarding. The Wilder
Approximately 650 people crowded into a concert hall at the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis to discuss conservation, recreation and how to reconnect Americans with the outdoors. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); and senior representatives from the United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Interior (DOI) attended the “listening session” as part of the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative.
Right now, a sweeping and long-awaited package of bills that would conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of new Wilderness and other special public lands is working its way through Congress. If passed, the omnibus lands act, would provide the greatest expansion of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 14 years.
So much work has gone into making these wilderness-friendly bills a reality, but with the end of the legislative year, many larger, controversial national issues have taken attention away from passing the legislation.
