This is it. This is priority #1 in the goal of conservation. Keep what’s pure and wild, pure and wild. Preventive medicine is always superior to “fix it” medicine, and always cheaper and less time consuming. Once you are able to make our truly last wild and pristine places protected, we can then fully focus efforts on restoration of other places without more cracks appearing in the dam.

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The legislation would protect 58.5 million acres of roadless national forest land in states stretching from Alaska to Florida, including 9.3 million acres in Idaho. More than 1.2 million acres in the Sawtooth National Forest would remain roadless.

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BOISE, Idaho — The man President Bush wants to oversee the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says the federal government, in an era of rising prices and ever-growing demand for oil and gas, cannot ignore the untapped resources stored beneath millions of acres of public lands across the West.

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PHILIPSBURG, Mont. (AP) Cars and pickup trucks would be banned on trails in a popular area of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest under a proposal the Forest Service is considering.