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US House passes bill to expand wilderness areas in 9 states
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by amyjudd | March 25, 2009 at 11:25 am
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The US House passed a bill today to be sent along to Barack Obama to put aside over two million acres of wilderness land across nine states that will be protected land.
The vote was split 285-140, and this was two weeks after the House rejected the bill over a dispute with gun rights. The bill was reintroduced last week and approved.
This will preserve national forests, rivers, parks and other lands for many years to come.
Opponents, mostly Republicans, called the bill a "land grab" that would block energy development on vast swaths of federal land.
The bill would confer the government's highest level of protection on land in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
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at 18:01 on March 25th, 2009
I would pass a law that gives at least 65% of the total land mass of any country to wild life only.
Well, I am happy that they do expand it but I think it is not enough.