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New Legislation is an Assault on the Very Idea of Wilderness and the Values of the Wilderness Act
July 22, 2016 /
The Sustainable Trails Coalition is attempting to amend and
weaken the Wilderness Act
MISSOULA, MONTANA
–
Last week Utah Republican Senators Orrin Hatch
and Mi
ke Lee introduced
the so
–
called
"Human
–
Powered Trave
l in Wilderness
Act," a piece of legislation that
would ride rough
–
shod over the Wilderness Act of
1964 by opening up America’s
National
Wilderness Preservation System to
mountain bikes
and other machines
. The bill would also allow
chainsaws and
wheeled devices like carts
and wheelbarrows in Wilderness
.
Full Story: http://wildernesswatch.org/images/wild-issues/pdfs/07-2016-WW-Press-Release-Mountain-Biking-Legislation.pdf
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