Plan Would Set Aside High-Desert Wilderness
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From Times Wire Reports
An alliance of ranchers, politicians and environmentalists rolled out a plan to preserve half a million acres of wilderness in southwest Idaho’s high desert.
The Owyhee Initiative plan sets aside 511,000 acres in six wilderness areas. The land that would be protected by Congress under the plan straddles about 390 miles of the winding Owyhee, Bruneau and Jarbidge rivers.
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