From the Associated Press:WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness.
Obama called the new law among the most important in decades "to protect, preserve and pass down our nation's most treasured landscapes to future generations."
...Obama said the law guarantees that Americans "will not take our forests, rivers, oceans, national parks, monuments, and wilderness areas for granted, but rather we will set them aside and guard their sanctity for everyone to share. That's something all Americans can support."
The law — a collection of nearly 170 separate measures — represents one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in a quarter-century. The measure confers the government's highest level of protection on land in nine states — almost as much wilderness as designated during the past eight years combined....
Finally, with a new administration comes the surety of protecting these lands for all creatures.
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ReplyDeleteYes, I am very pleased with this. I may not agree with all that is on Obama's agenda, but thus far on the environmental front (which is the most important one to me), he appears to be intent on delivering. My thanks are sincere.
True homeland security. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteThank you, CBL, and well put. "Homeland security" indeed.
ReplyDeleteThere are days when the whole world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Then... then there are little moments like this that offer a shiny little glimmer of a reason to stay optimistic. Optimistic for our world and ourselves.
ReplyDeleteMy sincere thanks to Obama as well.
Well said, Val, as usual. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks.
This is great news, much better than the news of the renaming of the "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Contingency Operation".
ReplyDeleteGrace,
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I hear you, and I'm with you!