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What’s the best way to celebrate 50 years of Wilderness Act?

Sunrise on the Chinese Wall, a 1,000-foot high, 22-mile long escarpment along the Continental Divide, captured with a digital camera by Spokane hiker Rick Diffley on Day 3 of a six-day, 70-mile backpacking trip through the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana.Sunrise on the Chinese Wall, a 1,000-foot high, 22-mile long escarpment along the Continental Divide, captured with a digital camera by Spokane hiker Rick Diffley on Day 3 of a six-day, 70-mile backpacking trip through the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. (Photo courtesy of Rick Diffley / The Spokesman-Review)
Sunrise on the Chinese Wall, a 1,000-foot high, 22-mile long escarpment along the Continental Divide, captured with a digital camera by Spokane hiker Rick Diffley on Day 3 of a six-day, 70-mile backpacking trip through the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana.Sunrise on the Chinese Wall, a 1,000-foot high, 22-mile long escarpment along the Continental Divide, captured with a digital camera by Spokane hiker Rick Diffley on Day 3 of a six-day, 70-mile backpacking trip through the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. (Photo courtesy of Rick Diffley / The Spokesman-Review)

PUBLIC LANDS -- The editorial writers of the Missoulian offered this opinion:

Montana should celebrate Wilderness Act anniversary with more wilderness
Montanans enjoy access to 16 wilderness areas within their state, and with the 50th anniversary of the federal Wilderness Act that allowed for the protection of those areas, they should push for approval of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act and the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act to protect additional acres of the Big Sky State for perpetuity.
--Missoulian

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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