“By the end of next year, it will be a national monument or we will have passed a wilderness bill, one of the two,” Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, said recently. If Congress does not act to protect key wild places, “the president has his pen and intends to use it,” White House counselor John Podesta told a September dinner marking the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Simpson was in the audience. Whichever preservation path is taken, paths in and near Castle Peak are some of the most beautiful in the West.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:42:01 +0000