It Ain't Just Idaho!

[Grumpy]

BLUERIBBON COALITION IDAHO LANDUSE UPDATE!

Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,

Phil Taylor, a reporter for E&E Publishing, a Washington D.C. based natural resource news source, wrote an article on Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson's CIEDRA Wilderness bill. Taylor's excellent article was also picked up by the New York Times (See links below for the article).

Taylor reports about how successful the Idaho Recreation Council has been in stopping this bad-for-recreation bill. That's quite a coup for IRC's Main Brain, Sandra Mitchell. Mitchell, in my opinion, has been unfairly maligned in Idaho's papers.

Lawmakers Split Over 330,000-Acre Idaho Wilderness Proposal
http://www.sharetrails.org/public_lands ... dE_News_10

And on the Times website:
Lawmakers Split Over 330,000-Acre Idaho Wilderness Proposal
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/30 ... 77718.html

Folks at BRC have a very bad feeling about what may happen in Congress after the election. Not because of how the make up of Congress might change, but because of what Congress might do in the interim.

The Wilderness lobby is pushing hard to get as much of their agenda passed before the next Congress is seated, and CIEDRA is on the top of that list.

As if to confirm the reading on our “Concern-O-Meter,â€