Congress Mulls Boulder-White Clouds

Later this month, Idaho will take its last, best chance to decide for itself the destiny of the Boulder-White Clouds range. Beginning on May 21, the latest version of a Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill will go before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining. Then in June, the House Resources public lands subcommittee will take up the measure. The Boulder-White Clouds have been at the center of Idaho’s environmental movement ever since a proposed open pit molybdenum mine became the focus of the 1970 gubernatorial campaign between Republican incumbent Don Samuelson, who supported the mine, and Democrat Cecil D. Andrus, who opposed it. Andrus won/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

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