House approves bill giving California half million acres of new wilderness FacebookTwitterEmail More than 1 million acres of public land in California and other Western states would be preserved as undeveloped wilderness under a Biden administration plan headed toward the Senate.Save the Redwoods League More than 1 million acres of public land in California and other Western states will be preserved as undeveloped wilderness if long-stalled legislation that’s back in play under the Biden administration can make it through Congress. The ambitious bill, which combines eight previously introdu...