That Old Wilderness Magic Is Still Alive

Jim DiPeso — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:40:32 +0000

This is a guest post by Jim DiPeso, policy director of Republicans for Environmental Protection

That old wilderness magic was in the air in Seattle a few nights ago.

Republicans and Democrats, business leaders and environmentalists, hunters and vegetarians gathered at an outdoor retailer to celebrate the Wild Sky Wilderness in the north Cascades. Earlier this year, legislation designating the 106,000-acre Wild Sky was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by a Republican president.

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.

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That Old Wilderness Magic Is Still Alive