President Signs Bill To Create Wild Sky Wilderness
Wilderness area would be northeast of Seattle
May 8, 2008, 8:24 AM PDT
Nearly six years after it was first
introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of
Seattle has become law.
President Bush signed a bill Thursday making Wild Sky the first
new wilderness area in Washington state in nearly a
quarter-century.
The House gave final approval to the bill last month. It
designates 167 square miles in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National
Forest north of Sultan, Wash., as federal wilderness, the
government's highest level of protection.
Wild Sky, sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rick Larsen,
both D-Wash., is the first new federally designated wilderness in
Washington since 1984.
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