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2005 - Archived articles, opinions, and editorials about the activities of CWHC, by local, state and national news organizations. Some of these articles are in PDF format. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
2005 - In The News Archives
In The News | Archives - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
October 13, 2005
Cache Creek bill Signed
Lake County Record Bee
SACRAMENTO -- Last Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1328 designating 31 miles of Cache Creek in Lake and Yolo counties as a state Wild, Scenic and Recreational river.
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October 7, 2005
Cache Creek stretch gets Wild, Scenic Designation
Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO - Legislation to designate a 31-mile stretch of Cache Creek as a state wild, scenic and recreational river was signed Thursday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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August 4 , 2005
Supervisors Adopt Hoover Accord
The Sheet - Mammoth's Daily News
The Mono County Board of Supervisors adopted a compromise agreement for snowmobile use in the proposed Hoover Wilderness at their Tuesday meeting in Bridgeport - a peaceful end to what has often been a contentious debate.
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July 29, 2005
Wilderness bill passes U.S. Senate
Willits News
A bill that protects about 300,000 acres of Northern California wilderness--approximately 100,000 of them in Mendocino County--passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.
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July 27, 2005
Senate passes north coast wilderness bill
Ukiah Daily Journal
WASHINGTON DC, In a bipartisan vote of support, the U.S. Senate has unanimously passed legislation protecting 300,000 acres of wilderness and 21 miles of wild and scenic river on existing federal public lands in Rep. Mike Thompson's 1st Congressional District.
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July 22, 2005
Wilderness bill is beneficial to all
Lake County Record
Kudos to Board of Supervisors Chair Ed Robey for his thoughtful and well-informed op/ed in the July 13 Record-Bee. He is absolutely right, wilderness is a "precious resource" indeed, and we in Lake County are inordinately fortunate to have some priceless fragments of unsullied natural heritage close enough to explore and enjoy.
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July 15, 2005
Wilderness protection bill slowly advances
San Francisco Chronicle
Washington -- Legislation to add 303,164 acres of North Coast land to California's federally protected wilderness areas was promoted Thursday in a House hearing and was on the verge of passing the Senate for the second time.
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July 15, 2005
Supervisor testifies for wilderness protection
Ukiah Daily Journal
Mendocino County Supervisor Jim Wattenburger testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Forests Thursday in support of a bill designed to permanently protect some 300,000 acres of public land as wilderness in Northern California.
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July 15, 2005
Wilderness bill aired on the hill
Eureka Times-Standard
A house resources subcommittee on Thursday weighed whether 300,000 more acres in Northern California should be designated wilderness.
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July 14, 2005
Wilderness bill has hearing
Lake County Record-Bee
LAKE COUNTY -- U.S. District One Congressman Mike Thompson's bill to protect some of Northern California's most outstanding wild regions moved a step closer to enactment on Thursday when it was heard for the first time by a bipartisan House subcommittee in Washington.
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July 6, 2005
Help preserve Napa's Cedar Roughs
Napa Valley Register
Those of us living in Napa County value our natural treasures. Our soil and water produce the grapes for world-class wines. Visitors come to share our climate and scenic countryside. Now, with the help of Congress, we can preserve a wonderful sample of our original landscape -- a true wilderness area for Napa County.
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February 17, 2005
Schwarzenegger, Senate panel endorse wilderness bill
Sacramento Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed a North Coast California wilderness bill that swiftly cleared a Senate committee Wednesday, and proponents said they hope the legislation now has the momentum to be enacted into law.
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January 25, 2005
Bill to protect North Coast wilderness revived
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
Despite two straight defeats, Northern California lawmakers are making another attempt to persuade Congress to protect more than 310,000 acres on the North Coast as federal wilderness.
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January 25, 2005
Calif. delegation hopes to get 300K-acre NoCal bill through Congress
Environment And Energy Daily
Members of California's congressional delegation wasted little time in reintroducing legislation that would designate nearly 300,000 acres in five Northern California counties as wilderness and add 21 miles of waterways to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
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January 26, 2005
Northern California wilderness bill reintroduced in Congress
Ukiah Daily Journal
A bill reintroduced in the Senate Monday would protect more than 300,000 acres as wilderness in Northern California, including areas of Mendocino, Lake, Humboldt, Napa and Del Norte counties.
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January 29, 2005
Plant diversity
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: I was pleased to see Rep. Mike Thompson and Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are working once again to pass the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act ("Bill to protect North Coast wilderness revived," Jan. 25).
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January 29, 2005
Critical habitat
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in regard to your Jan. 25 article, "Bill to protect North Coast wilderness revived." While I reside in Vallejo a good part of the year, at every opportunity I head to my home in Leggett, a village of close proximity to one of the proposed wilderness areas in the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act.
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