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March 27, 2006
EAI Statement on proposal to add 27,000 more acres of permanent Congressionally-designated wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest
"Over the past 30 years Congress, under strong pressure from a host of insatiable environmental groups, has designated 58,970 acres of permanent wilderness, plus another 21,770 acres of de facto wilderness, in the Green Mountain National Forest."
“For the enviros to demand that Congress now lock up even more land and toss away the key is an insult to Vermonters. We who live in the shadow of these mountains deserve to have the continuing responsibility for working out multiple use plans that fairly accommodate competing interests - not have that responsibility stripped from us to be exercised by Congress in faraway Washington. Our Congressional delegation ought to be ashamed to accede to that insulting demand."
(They ought to, but they won't.)
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