Wild Sky Wilderness
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The Wild Sky Wilderness is a proposed wilderness area in the western Cascade Range of Washington state. In February 2007, Senator Patty Murray and Rep. Rick Larsen introduced legislation that would create the 106,000-acre wilderness. Prior to 2007, this legislation was blocked in committee by Rep. Richard Pombo of California, who was not reelected in 2006. President George W. Bush has been receptive to the proposal in the past.
The wilderness would be within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest north of the U.S. Highway 2 towns of Index and Skykomish. The wilderness would flank, but not include, the North Fork Skykomish River and the Beckler River. The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness would be adjacent to the east and northeast.
The Wild Sky Wilderness would be significant because it would be the first new federally-designated wilderness in Washington since 1984. Also, unlike many other wilderness areas in the Cascades, the Wild Sky would protect significant amounts of high biological productivity low-elevation forest.
[edit] References
- Associated Press, "Nethercutt endorses Wild Sky wilderness", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 15, 2004
- Goldfarb, Sam, "Wild Sky wilderness bill back in Congress", The Seattle Times, February 7, 2007
[edit] External links
- The Wild Sky Wilderness Proposal, Washington Wilderness Coalition (political advocacy)
- Wild Sky Wilderness, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (political advocacy)
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