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S. 493, The California Wild Heritage Act of 2007 (2 comments ↓)
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
S. 493 would designate certain public land as wilderness and certain rivers as wild and scenic rivers in the State of California, it would designate Salmon Restoration Areas, and it would establish the Sacramento River National Recreation Area and Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
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Larry Kueneman
August 19, 2007, 12:05am (report abuse)It would be one thing to declare a specific area a wilderness, yet the intention of this bill is stated to preserve the "wilderness character of the area. The wilderness character of most of the forested areas so designated was lost several hundred years ago. Should the writers care to thin the forest from it's present 400 to 2,000 trees per acre back to the historic 40 to 60 trees per acre, I might agree. At today's greater number of trees sunlight is restricted on both the ground and the sides of the crowns of the trees. A long story short, this means that habitat is severely diminished. This is specifically why the ESA was needed.
Reagan Slee
June 28, 2008, 5:50pm (report abuse)When will people stop believing everything see on TV or in a Book? These lands are already protected and governed by the federal government. This is bill is written because Boxer’s ego wants to one up Feinstein’s. I was born and raised where this proposed wilderness is taking place and I have seen the land improve in the last 10 years but I have seen places that are labeled wilderness decrease too. People are such sheep and have ruined places because they labeled it. Listen to people they don’t want to go on a hike to someplace nobodies herd of they want to be an elitist and boost their egos with bragging to friends that they went to the blab blab wilderness over the summer. If you want to keep the land the way it is the government needs to have drastic enforcement. If somebody drives where they are not supposed to give them a $25,000 fine and take their vehicle. I am 100% opposed to this bill.