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Late last year the Obama administration overturned a 2003 Bush administration policy barring the Bureau of Land Management from temporarily protecting wilderness quality of land under its jurisdiction until Congress considered wilderness designation.

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‌In recent years people of faith have come together in an effort to green their churches, clean the air and the water, seek out less polluting alternative energy sources and work toward saving the great outdoors and the creatures who live there.

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Environmentalists aren’t the only Americans who support preserving wild areas on federal land.

Representatives of hunting, tourism and religious interests from four conservative Western states came to Boise Thursday to voice their support for a new U.S. Bureau of Land Management policy allowing for the establishment of wild lands. They spoke to the media via a teleconference hosted by the Wilderness Society.

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Some key elected officials in the Land of Enchantment are standing behind Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on a new policy to protect potential wilderness in the West.

Salazar's plan allows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to make a list of lands Congress might want to protect as federal wilderness, which means keeping industry and other uses off those lands until Congress can make the final call.

Salazar's order and a proposed Siskiyou Crest monument have little connection
 

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When Rep. Greg Walden addressed a group of protestors gathered at the Jackson County Courthouse Tuesday, he addressed two issues: a proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument and an order issued in December by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. One has virtually nothing to do with the other.