Both houses sat near a huge state park wilderness area.
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It is America's premier and most visited adventure Wilderness Area.
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The site attracts more visitors than any other U.S. wilderness area.
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Today it is the most visited wilderness area in the United States.
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Today, the Boundary Waters is the United States' most-visited wilderness area.
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Climate Fwd: Also this week, a plan to mine a pristine wilderness area.
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Bears frequently are spotted in the community which is close to a wilderness area.
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Moreover, another five of Earth's biomes have less than 10 percent wilderness area remaining.
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The proposed mine site is upstream from the popular wilderness area in the Superior National Forest.
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If it's been a while, you might be overdue for a visit to a wilderness area.
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A wilderness area in the Deschutes National Forest recovering from the 63 B&B Complex fires.
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Because of the interconnected waterways in the wilderness area, much of the area's watershed could become polluted.
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"Even if they don't spill a drop, they are industrializing a wilderness area," said the Sierra Club's Manuel.
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Earlier Thursday, Cecil Andrus' daughter, Tracy, praised the effort to add the governor's name to the wilderness area.
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It's such a luxury living so close to such a pretty wilderness area while still being in the city.
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The Illilouette Creek wilderness area, in Yosemite National Park, is encircled by granite peaks that create a natural firebreak.
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Cabeza Prieta is Arizona's largest wilderness area, spanning 803,418 acres of isolated and rugged landscape of the Sonoran Desert.
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But just outside of this wilderness area is one of the largest untapped sources of copper in the world.
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A future Congress could also designate the 1002 region a wilderness area, effectively ending the prospects for drilling altogether.
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"Even if they don't spill a drop, they are industrializing a wilderness area," the Sierra Club's Athan Manuel told Vox.
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Jugs of water and cans of beans Hoffman was also charged with operating a motor vehicle in a wilderness area.
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It was returning from a tour of Misty Fjords, a national monument and wilderness area, Princess Cruises said in a statement.
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"It's so important because it's showing to people that there is this beautiful wilderness area in China, these amazing animals," she says.
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Though the idea of putting a power plant in a wilderness area raised some hackles, the location was in many ways ideal.
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Republicans say the 1002 portion of the ANWR is a "non wilderness area" because the government put it aside decades ago for drilling.
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Last month, the BLM granted hard rock mineral leases in the wilderness area to Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, a subsidiary of Chile's Antofagasta.
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Last month, the BLM renewed hard rock mineral leases in the wilderness area to Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, a subsidiary of Chile's Antofagasta.
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But in Facebook posts published last weekend, he said he had been scouting elk in Madison Valley, in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness area.
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Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican, told reporters that the renaming of the wilderness area would not be undone.
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Ms. Roberts was visiting the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska, a wilderness area with no roads or trails.
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Risch threatened to trip up the bill by demanding lawmakers remove a provision naming a federal wilderness area after a deceased political rival.
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Children attending summer camps and others have been told to leave immediately as a wildfire burns in a wilderness area in south-central Washington.
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The Senate is expected to consider a rewrite of the tax code that includes a provision opening the Alaskan wilderness area to oil drilling.
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He and a group of researchers built a half-kilometre-long "phantom road" in a wilderness area where no real road had ever existed.
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The wilderness area supports thousands of jobs and millions in economic activity annually, and that is at risk with the mining proposals, McCollum said.
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Rescuers found the remains of Daniel Komins in a remote wilderness area in northern California's Trinity Alps, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office reported on Facebook.
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It's the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River, according to the National Park Service.
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Last month, the BLM renewed hard rock mineral leases in the watershed of the wilderness area to Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, a subsidiary of Chile's Antofagasta.
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The bill also gives a boost to oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic wilderness area with a provision to open a portion of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Today Congress can designate a Wilderness area, a Wild and Scenic River, or a new National Park, all organic designations with relatively well-defined management plans.
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NEVADA: Laughlin, Nevada, which is tucked between the Mohave Crossing and the Dead Mountains Wilderness Area, reached a scorching 125 degrees Fahrenheit on June 29, 1994.
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Venturing into a wilderness area might feel relaxing and restorative for one person, but terrifying for someone else, who'd much rather decompress in an urban park.
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An oil exploration firm and two Alaska Native corporations together submitted an application to begin seismic exploration work in the wilderness area, the Washington Post reported.
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Last month, the BLM renewed hard rock mineral leases in the watershed of the wilderness area to Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, a subsidiary of Chile's Antofagasta.
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The Last Great Wilderness Area Is Finally Being ProtectedIn a rare international collaboration, twenty four countries and the European Union have…Read more ReadKerry's a lucky guy.
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Despite this "catastrophic" decline in global wilderness area, the researchers also note that the amount of protected wilderness has also grown significantly during the same two decades.
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The federally protected, 492-square-mile wilderness area is home to brown bears, caribou, wolves, and, once a year, the entire world population of black brant geese.
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"After decades and decades in this chamber, we are opening up a small non-wilderness area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for responsible development," Ryan said.
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But the breach at Old Inlet lies in a federally protected wilderness area, and policy requires monitoring of the new channel to see if it closes naturally.
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These include the core of Washpool National Park, the largest rainforest wilderness area in New South Wales, and several parks to the northeast near the Queensland border.
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Davlin: Simpson has been open about his plans to rename the wilderness area, but I'd be surprised if Risch knew it was in the omnibus spending bill.
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After passing the Hollow Hills Wilderness area, I went miles without seeing a single car on Death Valley Road; the isolation of the desert became readily apparent.
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Still, she said she wasn't happy, so she came to this wilderness area in 2010 where, as a child, she had spent her holidays fishing and hunting.
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Land Tawney's favorite place in the world is a 28500 million-acre expanse of mountainous terrain called the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, outside his home in Missoula, Mont.
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Walz's brother, Craig, was killed Sunday by a tree toppled by violent storms that hit the northern Minnesota wilderness area where he was camping with his son. Rep.
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"This wilderness area, it's always been a contentious point anyway, because Harry Reid was in on it, and nobody likes Harry Reid in rural Nevada," Malcolm Harris explained.
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As the fires tear through a wilderness area five times the size of New Hampshire, hundreds of firefighters have been mobilized to protect people, homes, roads and utilities.
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A lake in the Central Plateau Conservation area, Via Dan BrounSince mid January, out-of-control bushfires sparked by lightning storms have raged across Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area.
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Police said they would like to speak with anyone who was in the popular wilderness area known as the Horse River Trail System between April 29 and May 5.
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Federal regulators have rejected a company's leases for copper and nickel mining in northern Minnesota, saying production there poses a risk to a federal wilderness area in the region.
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The sun was setting by the time we reached the Sage Creek campground, a waterless patch near the park's designated wilderness area at the end of a gravel road.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last month to overturn an Obama administration effort to slow down mine permitting near a federal wilderness area in northern Minnesota.
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"There's a reason that the Boundary Waters is one of the most-visited wilderness area in America: it's an incredible place," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement.
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If you're in a true wilderness area where trails may be poorly marked (or nonexistent), this can easily make the difference between you getting to your intended destination or not.
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A three-day trip for two people starts at 1,150 Canadian dollars and includes transportation from Halifax to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, tents, canoeing equipment and all meals and snacks.
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Andrus mentioned the feud as late as March 2017, when he stated on a panel that he blamed Risch for the reduced size of the Boulder-White Cloud wilderness area.
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They warned that drilling in any section of ANWR will risk the habitat of caribou and other animals and undermine the idea of setting aside the region as a wilderness area.
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The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 280 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches through BC and up to Alaska.
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The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 85 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches through BC and up to Alaska.
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He also visited the continent's first national park, Virunga, and witnessed the work of rangers who protect the wilderness area from outside threats such as oil exploitation and violence towards the animals.
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According to the Denver Post, drilling could be done on land that touches the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness area and within one mile of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
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"A good part of the Ranch Fire is in the wilderness area that does not impact our small communities," said Melissa Fulton, the chief executive of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
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On a guided trip with adventure travel company Ukaliq Wilderness Adventures, explore the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in Nova Scotia renowned for its varied geography of barren landscapes, interconnected lakes and pine forests.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski, the chair of the Senate energy committee and a Republican from Alaska, called this a "non wilderness area" because the federal government put it aside decades ago for petroleum exploration.
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The Interior Department, led by Secretary Ryan Zinke, is pushing a plan that would -- for the first time -- allow a new road through a federally protected wilderness area, according to internal government emails.
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The trip includes two nights in the Kwando wilderness area, three nights in the Okavango Delta and two more in the Central Kalahari, from $103,210 a person, double occupancy, which includes the discount.
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So, the United States must put all its copper deposits to good use — or so goes the argument for mining on the edge of the Boundary Waters, a pristine wilderness area in Minnesota.
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And the Mexican authorities reported on Saturday that they had rescued 147 Central American migrants, including 48 children, found abandoned in a wilderness area in Veracruz State after a truck carrying them crashed.
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In 2000, a summer that saw a brutal heat wave, several volunteers with the group No More Deaths were arrested on federal misdemeanor charges for placing water in a federally protected wilderness area.
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Petrolia, in Humboldt County, has an estimated population of a few hundred people, and is located 407 km (5 miles) north of San Francisco in a wilderness area that experiences frequent earthquake activity.
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An internal Interior Department memo has proposed lifting restrictions on exploratory seismic studies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a possible first step toward opening the pristine wilderness area to oil and gas drilling.
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The nation's most-visited wilderness area, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, faces the certain threat of toxic pollution from proposed copper sulfide mining in the headwaters of this popular paradise.
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"I felt like, being from Germany, she wasn't familiar with the Glacier Peak wilderness area, and Glacier Peak creates its own weather, and it can be really bad this time of year," Abell said.
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And because the report isn't already bleak enough, the researchers also pointed out that, despite this distressingly fast loss of wilderness area over the last two decades, almost nothing is being done about it today.
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The bushfires, which lasted from September until torrential rains hit earlier this month, killed 33 people and a billion native animals nationally and destroyed 2,500 homes and a wilderness area the size of South Korea.
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The bushfires, which lasted from September until torrential rains hit earlier this month, killed 33 people and a billion native animals nationally and destroyed 2,500 homes and a wilderness area the size of South Korea.
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Two hikers lost for more than a day in a remote section of the Shining Rock Wilderness area of western North Carolina were located late Saturday and airlifted to a hospital, The Asheville Citizen-Times reported.
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Communities on Australia's southern coast are questioning whether the government can justify putting at risk a unique marine wilderness area that supports the country's most valuable fisheries and a tourism industry worth more than $1 billion.
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They argued that its facilities would be located next to critical habitat for grizzly bears and bull trout, both endangered species, and that the mine would also drain millions of gallons from streams in the wilderness area.
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An affidavit in support of the summons for Hoffman, Holcomb, Huse and Orozco said the four volunteers entered the designated wilderness area without authorization in August 2017 to leave gallon jugs of water and cans of beans.
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The Obama administration on Thursday blocked development of a copper and nickel mine near a popular wilderness area in northern Minnesota, saying the project could poison the vast web of lakes, streams and wetlands that crosshatch the region.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conservation group on Thursday sued the Trump administration for withholding documents related to its decision to cancel a 20-year ban on mining in a Minnesota wilderness area and open it up to copper production.
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Maya Kane, an attorney representing the Wilderness Society, said the agencies failed to comply with FOIA's statutory mandates by withholding documents, which limits public access to information about the environmental impact of opening up the popular wilderness area.
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Meanwhile, he awaits a ruling from Collins on separate misdemeanor charges connected to leaving food, water and medical supplies in June 2017 on a migrant route in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a wilderness area southwest of Ajo.
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In July, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, introduced a bill that would permit construction of a road though a protected wilderness area in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which provides essential habitat for many wild animals.
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It was only the second time I had met them, and they had brought me to a remote wilderness area in Colorado, where we were now stranded, on a cold and snowy afternoon at 10,000 feet above sea level.
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Darren Lewis and his extended family planned to spend the Fourth of July at a cabin built nearly 50 years ago by his father and uncle in a wilderness area that is nestled between canyons and sits near a mountain river.
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Watch the full length As the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon reaches its sixth day, Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward and Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed protestors, hold a surprise meeting in a remote wilderness area.
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WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday renewed two mineral leases near the Boundary Waters Wilderness area in Minnesota, opening the popular wilderness and recreation area up to copper mining despite heavy opposition from local and national conservation groups.
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WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, drawing criticism from environmentalists and an effort by Democratic lawmakers to put the pristine wilderness area off limits to development.
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WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, drawing criticism from environmentalists and an effort by Democratic lawmakers to put the pristine wilderness area off limits to development.
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For almost as long, however, people have been coming to this area for another reason, too: to visit America's most popular national wilderness area, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, which encompasses roughly a million protected acres and thousands of lakes and welcomes 150,000 visitors annually.
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Since September, bushfires in Australia have killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals, while 2,500 homes and a wilderness area the size of Greece have been destroyed, prompting critics to accuse Morrison of not doing enough to cut the country's carbon emissions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday renewed two long-mothballed leases near the Boundary Waters Wilderness area in Minnesota, a key step in opening up the popular wilderness and recreation area to copper mining despite heavy opposition from local and national conservation groups.
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"We believe that the documents in question will confirm what we all know, which is that the science and public opinion definitively show that copper mining poses an unacceptable risk to this iconic wilderness area," said Allison Flint, a lawyer for the Wilderness Society.
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"Sadly, the Trump administration is charging ahead with the effort to build an unnecessary road through this extraordinary wilderness area — regardless of the damage it would cause to Izembek's globally significant wildlife habitat," Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society, told the Washington Post.
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The fire started July 12 when lightning struck a snag and began burning — the same area scarred by the 1987 Silver Fire and 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, a congressionally designated wilderness area where forest management activities such as mechanized thinning are strictly prohibited.
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After a scare over whether a fiscally conservative senator might force a brief government shutdown this weekend, along with an unexpected grievance from another senator over the renaming of an Idaho wilderness area, the Senate voted 65 to 213 to approve the bill around 12:30 Friday morning.
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A spending bill was stalled in the Senate Thursday for hours, for example, because of a decades-old rivalry in Idaho where sitting senator Jim Risch, a Republican from Idaho, objected to a advancing a spending bill because it renamed a wilderness area for a late political rival.
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But thanks to a new bill introduced by Minnesota's Congresswoman Betty McCollumBetty Louise McCollumLet's prevent irreparable harm to an irreplaceable wilderness area Democrats secure fast-track to the floor for Canada-Mexico trade deal House approves two-state resolution in implicit rebuke of Trump MORE, Congress has the opportunity to prevent that from happening.
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Related: A Turf War in a Previously Dreamy Coastal City Points to Splits in Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel The arrests were reportedly carried out on Friday in the vicinity of Sonoyta, a city in Sonora that is just across the border from Lukeville, Arizona, and directly south of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wilderness area in the Arizona desert.
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