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A few dates:
- July 23, 1980: Then-President Carter signs the Central Idaho Wilderness Act, creating the 2.2-million-acre Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.
- Nov. 4, 1980: Larry Craig is elected to Congress.
- Jan. 6, 2009: A new Congress is sworn into office, ending Craig’s 28-year congressional career.
- March 25, 2009: Idaho’s first wilderness bill since 1980 — creating the 517,000-acre Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness — passes Congress.
A succinct but fair assessment of Larry Craig’s dismal public lands legacy/Kevin Richert.
Question: Would Congress have passed the Owyhee Wilderness bill, if Larry Craig was still a U.S. senator from Idaho?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Cabbage Boy on March 26 at 2:17 p.m.
Of all the issues one can find with Craig, this is what he chooses? Must be a slow news day or Richert was extremely bored.
Perhaps this is the only positive in Craigs legacy. We didn’t waste any more money on wilderness areas.
Arpie on March 26 at 5:22 p.m.
Cabbage, Care to expand on that? How does our country “waste money” on Wilderness areas?