Proposal for Big Wilderness Expansion Draws Support, Strong Criticism in Congress

摘要

A House subcommittee May 5 listened to renewed arguments over a proposed large expansion of wilderness lands in the northern Rocky Mountain region, a plan supported by activists and many members of Congress from other regions, and opposed by state and local officials in the affected areas.rnThe proposed Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (H.R. 980) would designate about 24 million acres of National Forest System and other federal lands as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors between pockets of wild fauna and flora.