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U.S. House to vote on Congressman Salud Carbajal’s Central Coast Heritage Protection Act on Friday SANTA BARBARA, Calif -- House representatives from California met Thursday to discuss the importance of protecting one million acres of public land across California. The meeting came ahead of Friday's vote on the Protecting America's Wilderness and Public Lands Act. It's a package of public lands bills strongly supported by the Biden Administration that would protect lands and waters across California, Colorado, Washington and Arizona. The package includes Rep. Salud Carbajal's Central Coas...

camera icon Photo © Phillip Gray/Dreamstime. Washington, D.C – The Grand Canyon and Santa Monica Mountains national park sites are among the many beneficiaries of the ambitious public lands package that passed the House of Representatives today that aims to protect public lands, combat climate change and advance environmental justice. The ‘Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act’ passed the House in a 227-200 vote, and, if enacted, would designate almost 1.5 million acres of public land as wilderness and incorporate more than 1,000 river miles into th...

Print This is the Dec. 10, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. More than 111 million acres of U.S. wilderness have been designated since 1964, when the Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson. It’s the highest level of protection the federal government offers, ensuring that wild lands remain free of permanent roads, motor vehicles, commercial enterprise and structures of any kind. The law’s definition of wilderness is the stuff of legend: “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where...