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Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill gets hearing

Mountain bikers cross Warm Springs meadow on the Warm Springs Trail in the proposed Boulder-White Clouds wilderness area in central Idaho. (Chris Cook / Associated Press)
Mountain bikers cross Warm Springs meadow on the Warm Springs Trail in the proposed Boulder-White Clouds wilderness area in central Idaho. (Chris Cook / Associated Press)

PUBLIC LANDS -- Wilderness politics in Idaho is a fascinating process to watch:

House committee hears testimony on Idaho wilderness bill
At the House Resources Committee’s subcommittee on Public Lands hearing on Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson's proposed wilderness bill for lands in the Boulder-White Cloud mountains, Simpson's colleague, Rep. Raul Labrador, said he believed that the public support for the wilderness bill was more likely opposition to the proposal that President Obama could designate the area a national monument.
--Idaho Statesman

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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