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Good news Badlands.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Good news Badlands.(Hiking)(Explore a lava landscape that's now officially a wilderness area)

Article Excerpt
Byline: William L. Sullivan For The Register-Guard

The new wilderness bill Congress passed and sent to the President last week is a long-awaited present for lovers of wild backcountry.

More than 200,000 acres in Oregon - including a unique high desert wilderness area known as the Badlands - were designated as wilderness by the bill, which passed the House by a wide margin just two weeks after failing by two votes in a dispute over gun rights. The wilderness package was supported by every legislator from Oregon and Idaho.

For 25 years, the only new wilderness area in Oregon had been Steens Mountain, designated in the final days of the Clinton presidency in 2000. Now we're a Presidential signature away from having more than a dozen new wilderness areas, many with strange-sounding names: Big Bottom. Sisi Butte. Memaloose Lake.

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