{"id":375,"date":"2006-09-24T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-09-24T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T15:38:17","slug":"wilderness-designation-trade-offs-faulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness Designation Trade-Offs Faulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/23\/AR2006092301124.html?referrer=email\">Wilderness Designation Trade-Offs Faulted<\/a> By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local communities in the process.<\/p>\n<p>If lawmakers finish work on the legislation before adjourning &#8212; several bills have passed the House already and a Senate hearing is scheduled for Wednesday &#8212; it would amount to the largest designation of new wilderness areas in a decade. But advocates and critics are in a bitter fight over the trade-offs, with opponents saying the public is paying too high a price. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The new legislative approach reflects a simple political reality: <em>Republican<\/em> congressional leaders will accept new wilderness areas only if they come with these kinds of trade-offs. Wilderness designations have often been difficult to push through Congress because they are more restrictive than national forest or park designations, and bar man-made structures or roads within their confines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilderness Designation Trade-Offs Faulted By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wilderness Designation Trade-Offs Faulted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}