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2003 - In The News Archives

In The News | Archives - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

November 6, 2003
Wilderness bill would have local impact
Auburn Journal
Approximately 40,000 local acres of the Tahoe National Forest could be under increased federal protection as wilderness lands if a bill, currently in the House of Representatives, is passed.
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October 27, 2003
Activists push for more protected areas -
Bill would help preserve 2.7 million acres of wilderness
Ventura County Star
WASHINGTON -- Nobody has to tell Gary Bulla about the impact that development has on rivers and wilderness areas. He has been an avid fly-fisherman long enough to have seen the effects for himself.
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October 18, 2003
Wilderness Bill Introduced
Woodland Daily Democrat
Legislation that will protect California's most prized natural areas as wilderness and wild and scenic rivers has been introduced by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa.
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September 24, 2003
Forest Drilling Bad for Business
Ventura County Star
The Los Padres National Forest has long served as the primary playground for our customers in Ventura. Its wilderness qualities, clean rivers, abundant wildlife, and wild terrain make the Los Padres a crown jewel among the wild places of California, and a haven for the millions of us who call Southern California home.
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August 28, 2003
'Protected' Status for Deep Creek -
Senator Boxer Proposes Wild Heritage Act Bill
Crestline Courier-News & Lake Arrowhead Mountain News
If California Senator Barbara Boxer has her way, the 22-mile long Deep Creek - which flows from the Snow Valley Ski Resort to the Mojave River - will be designated as a Scenic River as part of the California Wild Heritage Act of 2003.
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August 19, 2003
Bill would save Clavey from dams, diversions
The Union-Democrat
With Johnny Cash on the radio, Monica Weakley's truck bounces over U.S. Forest Service roads as she heads deep in Stanislaus National Forest, bound for a Tuolumne River tributary she is committed to protecting.
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August 7, 2003
Wildlife protection plan backed
The [Stockton] Record
Sen. Barbara Boxer has reintroduced controversial legislation that would protect about 2.5 million acres of public land in California and portions of 22 rivers, including stretches of the Mokelumne and Stanislaus.
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August 2, 2003
Boxer introduces wilderness act -
Could protect acreage in Cache Creek
Woodland Daily Democrat
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer introduced the "California Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2003" which would protect approximately 2.5 million acres of public lands in 81 different areas across California, as well as the free-flowing portions of 22 rivers Friday.
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April 1, 2003
Thompson revives wilderness land bill -
Measure would preserve 300,000 acres in Northern California
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
More than 300,000 acres of Northern California federal land would be designated as wilderness under legislation re-introduced last week by Rep. Mike Thompson.
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March 29, 2003
Bill pushes for more wilderness
Eureka Times-Standard
A bill introduced Thursday by U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson would make hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands into wilderness areas.
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March 5, 2003
Group Calls to Save Lands
The Bakersfield Californian
An annual list of California's 10 most threatened wild places released today includes two Kern County landscapes: Tejon Ranch and Los Padres National Forest.
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March 5, 2003
Group says sites threatened
Policy decisions could impact Klamath, Lassen, Medicine Lake
Redding Record Searchlight
Susan Masten struggles to summon words describing the sight - and smell - of 33,000 dead fish choking the Klamath River.
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March 5, 2003
Group, lawmakers seek logging curbs
Contra Costa Times
Environmental groups and state legislators are adopting a tag-team approach this spring to pressure state and federal regulators to alter logging practices in California.
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February 19, 2003
Coalition Petitions to Protect Desert Land
San Bernardino Sun
A statewide coalition of environmental, business and civic groups is petitioning to protect California's wild lands and rivers, including seven proposed wilderness areas in the eastern Mojave Desert.
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February 13, 2003
Group Lobbies to Protect Wilderness
Santa Barbara News-Press
Activists demanded expanded, permanent protection of rivers and undeveloped federal lands Wednesday in a rall at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.
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