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Expansive lands bill establishes trails, wilderness in Northwest

Recreational trails through the Northwest and a wilderness area in Idaho are part of a massive public lands bill that passed the U.S. House on Wednesday and awaits President Barack Obama’s signature. The Omnibus Public Lands Bill, which combined nearly 170 measures into a single package, establishes a wilderness area in Idaho’s Owyhee Canyon and a hiking trail that extends from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast.
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Claiming trails: mountain bikers, hikers confront wilderness

Mountain bikers are gearing up to stay on track in backcountry areas being proposed for federal wilderness designation in the Inland Northwest and throughout the nation. Most people know that motors are prohibited in official wilderness, but federal wilderness rules also ban "mechanized equipment." That term has been interpreted to include mountain bicycles, which had not yet been invented when Congress approved the Wilderness Act in 1964.
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Grinding through The Bob

The late-July fishing-floating trip Edwin Hill helped organize on Montana's South Fork of the Flathead River turned out to be a drag. The Spokane adventurer and his extended family hired an outfitter to mule-pack their rafting gear into the Bob Marshall Wilderness as they hiked 18 miles to a traditional put-in on Youngs Creek.
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Anaconda-Pintler: Montana’s Lonesome Wilderness

Going the extra mile for a special reunion of four old college friends, we huffed and hoofed deep into a Montana wilderness where roughly 240 square miles appeared to have been reserved for our private party. The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness has never been a notably crowded destination despite its easy access from Interstate 90 west of Butte. Two weeks ago, however, the backcountry haven was virtually deserted.
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The Bob: Hunting camp trip provides chance to experience wilderness

It's day five of Bobby and Dave Terese's 10-day hunting trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. Neither has bagged his elk yet, but this morning, as the two New Orleans cousins wolf down bacon and eggs, they fill the air with Cajun accents and raucous laughter, the optimism of another day in the wild. Hunting is a journey, not a destination for these two. If they shoot an elk, they're thrilled. If they don't get anything, they say they'll still consider the trip a success.
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Cutthroat business in Bob Marshall Wilderness

Plans to poison thousands of fish in 21 Montana lakes then stock them with westslope cutthroat trout have final approval and the work, still disputed by some state commissioners, is tentatively scheduled to start this fall. The project, proposed in 2001, is meant to remove hybrid trout from the western Montana lakes, nearly half of them in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
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Circling Rainier: Wonderland Trail

While "Near Nature, Near Perfect," might be a stretch for Spokane, the city's slogan would be an understatement for the 94-mile Wonderland Trail that circumnavigates Mount Rainier. From rain forests to glaciers and slugs to mountain goats, the entire Pacific Northwest mountain experience is packed into this one classic loop. That said, it's not for everybody. The Wonderland is not a wilderness experience in the sense of the puckering solitude found deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana or in just about any park or refuge in Alaska. Backpackers on the Wonderland Trail can:
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