Many Idahoans have decided that leaving land management in the Boulder-White Clouds in flux, as wilderness study areas and under the threat ...
S. 3294 is a well-constructed piece of legislation that is the right thing to do for Central Idaho both economically and ecologically.
I offer my thanks to Sen. Mike Crapo for his leadership.
I am committed to providing the funding necessary to implement such an agreement.
This bill is the product of a decade of collaborative discussions and negotiating.
If this were easy it would have been done by now.
The needs of the people who live and recreate in the area are as important as the lines that we draw on a map.
Our challenge today is to rise above the noise and provide leadership that represents the true majority who sit squarely in the center and w...
It is NOT the way Senator Bennet developed his Washington County, Utah Wilderness bill.
The old approach of wilderness, of sacrificing the needs of one individual or specific user group to benefit the others will not work anymor...
These are national lands, held in trust by the federal government, and while many of us who live in Idaho think of these lands as our own, t...
I've been working on for some 10 years since I got into Congress.
This bill releases four wilderness study areas that are currently wilderness study areas, treated as de facto wilderness.
I still believe a better alternative exists to protect the proposed areas, create economic development and recreational opportunities in the...
CIEDRA will provide little, if any, additional protection for these special areas, their character and the landscape.
From an absolute legal standpoint you're absolutely correct. From a practical standpoint you and I both know that before they overturn the r...
I cannot support protection at the cost of access, sacrificing recreational or hunting opportunities or impacting state endowment lands.
Those three are three areas that, in the Roadless rule, when you and I worked on that that we designated for what is essentially wilderness ...
