Rooting For Boulder-White Clouds

The analogy of baseball season and the progress of Rep. Mike Simpson’s bill to protect the Boulder-White Clouds are eerily similar. After breaking spring training, Simpson’s H.R. 1138 — the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act — opened the season and the 2015 Congressional session with the kind of mixed reviews the Chicago Cubs get. Even though there was steadfast support from Idaho colleague Sen. Jim Risch and a growing list of jurisdictions and stakeholder groups, a collection of boo birds scoffed at the prospect of anybody finding a consensus in an age of gridlock and political grind. Some who might have supported it could never imagine Simpson or anybody else getting Congress to behave and get something done — especially if it involved designating something as wilderness, an extremely restrictive status. We are, and always have been, believers that Simpson’s long dedication to finding a way to bring added protection to this Central Idaho jewel of nature would pay off. We have cheered him on all the way/ Idaho Statesman. More here.

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