Jim DiPeso is policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection, a position he has held since 2001. Before joining Republicans for Environmental Protection, he worked in communications and policy for the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center and for the Northwest Energy Coalition. He has a bachelor's degree in communications from California State Polytechnic University.
Just as the authors of the Wilderness Act intended, protecting the Wild Sky Wilderness was a great American cause beyond the dividing lines that crisscross American society.
Not that it was easy to accomplish. For wilderness, it never is. From the day that local activists first drew the Wild Sky’s lines on maps until the day that President Bush signed his name to the authorizing legislation, nine years elapsed.
From its birth during the grim days of mood rings and the OPEC oil embargo, the 55-mph national speed limit experienced an unhappy existence - reviled by drivers and ignored more often than obeyed.
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