Bill Clinton: “I will soon send the Congress a plan to bestow the highest level of…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1999

I will soon send the Congress a plan to bestow the highest level of wilderness protection on more than 5 million acres of back-country lands.

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Remarks on the 150th Anniversary of the Department of the Interior

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