The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro
Congress Promises Huge Public Lands Gift, But You Have to Ask
Part of the California wildlands to be protected.
Text by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro, photo by John Dittli
“Vote the Environment” doesn’t stop with the culmination of the presidential election: Congress is set to protect 3 million acres of land across the United States and add safeguards to 1,000 miles of rivers—but it needs encouragement to get its lame-duck butt back to D.C. to approve it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to call back the Senate to vote on the massive Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2008, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has not said whether she’ll force her fellow reps to return and consider it. She should. And you should call her office and tell her so. Here’s why: CONTINUE READING>>
Protecting land in the Western states is so important. I'll call Pelosi!
Matt Bamberg
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Posted by: Matt Bamberg | January 27, 2009 at 02:58 AM