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House Goes “Wild” for Monongahela Bill – Senate Next

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Thursday, April 24, 2008   

Charleston, WV – The U.S. House has passed a bill to protect selected areas of the Monongahela National Forest. Supporters say that's great news, but they hope the Senate will add more areas to the measure. Sponsored by all three of West Virginia's representatives, it gives federal wilderness designation to almost 38,000 acres of National Forest land in West Virginia.

Dave Saville with the West Virginia Wilderness Coalition says the House vote is cause for celebration.

"We've been working on this for many, many years, and to have it pass the House of Representatives, especially by a vote of 368 to 17, that's pretty exciting stuff."

The bill now goes to the Senate, and Saville says he's hopeful that some areas that didn't make the cut in the House bill will be added in.

"We think that there's some more areas that deserve to be protected, namely, Seneca Creek which has just broad-based support from trout fishermen and back country recreationists, we certainly hope that our Senators will include it in the final bill."

He says important parts of the Roaring Plains area were also left out of the House bill.

Saville says the bill does offer long-term protection for some of the most important parts of West Virginia's National Forest lands.

"Wilderness legislation is important because it provides legislative protections for parts of our National Forests. The rest of the National Forests is what we call administratively protected, and administrations change, politics change, so there's no permanence to any kind of management."

He says the wilderness proposal came together because of years of work from volunteers, and support from local governments, businesses, trout-fishing groups, labor organizations, and church groups.


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