{"id":7128,"date":"2011-07-27T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2011-07-27T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:57:29","slug":"the-colorado-independent-pew-wilderness-release-act-would-%e2%80%98open-area-size-of-wyoming-to-industrial-activity%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"The Colorado Independent | Pew: Wilderness release act would \u2018open area size of Wyoming to industrial activity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoindependent.com\/95024\/pew-wilderness-release-act-would-open-area-size-of-wyoming-to-industrial-activity\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ramshorn-dunoir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pew Environment Group today came out in opposition to a bill introduced last spring by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that would open up a \u201cWyoming-sized\u201d chunk of national forest and Bureau of Land Management land to resource extraction, road building and motorized vehicle traffic.\u201cThis legislation would undo decades of public land protections by opening up an area the size of Wyoming to new industrial activity,\u201d Pew Environment Group Deputy Director Tom Wathen said in a prepared statement. \u201cIt would allow some of the country\u2019s most pristine and spectacular landscapes to be exploited, including the vast majority of undisturbed national forests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at the Colorado Independent: <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoindependent.com\/95024\/pew-wilderness-release-act-would-open-area-size-of-wyoming-to-industrial-activity\">Pew: Wilderness release act would \u2018open area size of Wyoming to industrial activity\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Environment Group today came out in opposition to a bill introduced last spring by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that would open up a \u201cWyoming-sized\u201d chunk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[372,371],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-roadless-areas","tag-wilderness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7134,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}