Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a bill on a 363-62 vote to protect over one million acres of public lands. The Senate had already passed the bill, and it now goes to Trump.
The bill designates 1.3 million acres of land in Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, and California as wilderness, which is the highest level of protection. It defines hundreds of miles of rivers in Massachusetts and Connecticut as wild and scenic, and it adds thousands of acres to the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.
If Trump vetoes it, there just might be enough votes to override.
For the full story, see Coral Davenport, “House Backs Broad Bill To Protect Public Land,” New York Times, (Feb. 27, 2019), p. A15. I apologize to all of the readers who already heard about this on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Facebook, Twitter, CBS, NBC, or ABC.
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