Groups Back Boulder-White Clouds

At a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing today on wilderness legislation for the Boulder-White Clouds and Jerry Peak mountains, Rick Johnson of the Idaho Conservation spoke in favor of the bill on behalf of a coalition of 26 groups, reports Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman, from the Idaho Conservation League he heads to the Idaho Cattle Association, the Idaho Farm Bureau and the Idaho Water Users Association. “There has never been such broad consensus around legislation for the Boulder-White Clouds,” Johnson told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here .