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E&E Daily
By Eric Bontrager
April 16, 2008

Senators tackle Alaska road proposal, wilderness bills [Excerpt]

Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Warner (R-Va.) both appeared before the subcommittee to speak on behalf of their bills.

Boxer's S. 2109, which would designate 190,000 acres of Southern California desert and forests as wilderness, was well received by administration officials who said the legislation only requires some technical corrections to boundaries and acreage amounts.

The bill would protect Interior and Forest Service land that is home to the threatened bighorn sheep, bald eagle, desert tortoise and other species by creating four new wilderness areas and adding to six existing areas. In addition, it would add about 5,000 acres to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument (Greenwire, Sept. 27, 2007)...