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No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill After five years of delay, the House has passed a bill creating a 167-square-mile Wild Sky Wilderness area in northern Washington state. The bill had been approved by the Senate three times in recent years, but stalled out each time in the Republican-led House, with former California Rep. Richard P ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Lost in the Wilderness Committee Wild Sky wilderness bill dead in the water for this year		23 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Lost in the Wilderness Committee Wild Sky wilderness bill dead in the water for this year Despite overwhelming public and bipartisan support, an effort to create Washington state's first new wilderness area in 20 years died yesterday, thanks to both partisan quarreling and the intransigence of Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chair of the House Resources Committee. The story is complicated and rife with political finger-poi ...
Topics: politics, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Letter of the Law Can laws be written that inspire reverence for the land?	David Mayfield	09 Feb 2001	Main Dish
As usual, Charles Wilkinson is pacing. Hands stuffed in the front pockets of his Levi's, head down, he paces the lecture hall, up one stairway and down the other, his students' heads swiveling to follow him. Charles Wilkinson, law man. Photo: Larry Harwood, University of Colorado at Boulder. But on this December morning, during the last meeting of Wilkinson's natural resources law course at t ...
Topics: Colorado, education, politics, Washington, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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