Congress Gives Wilds Some Love

Congress shook its inability to work across the aisle this week and passed public lands legislation that’s been years in the making. The U.S. House on Thursday passed a defense spending bill containing a broad public lands package for the West. In Montana, it provides new wilderness on the Rocky Mountain Front, a ban on mining near Glacier National Park and changes supporting oil exploration and grazing on federal land. The bill adds 67,000 acres to the Bob Marshall Wilderness and designating 208,000 acres along the Front as a conservation management area/ Rich Landers , SR Outdoors blog. More here.