Everything about The Wild Sky Wilderness totally explained
The
Wild Sky Wilderness is a
wilderness area in the western
Cascade Range of
Washington state. The wilderness is within the
Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest north of the
U.S. Highway 2 towns of
Index and
Skykomish. The wilderness flanks, but doesn't include, the North Fork
Skykomish River and the
Beckler River. The
Henry M. Jackson Wilderness is adjacent to the east and northeast.
The Wild Sky Wilderness is significant because it's the first new federally-designated wilderness in Washington since
1984. Also, unlike many other wilderness areas in the Cascades, Wild Sky protects significant amounts of high biological productivity low-elevation
forest.
Legislative history
The Wild Sky Wilderness required several legislative attempts before becoming law, despite broad local support. Prior to 2007, the Wild Sky bill was blocked in committee by Rep.
Richard Pombo of
California, who wasn't reelected in 2006.
President George W. Bush had been receptive to the proposal.
In
February 2007,
Senator Patty Murray and
Rep.
Rick Larsen introduced
legislation to designate the Wild Sky as wilderness. The bill then passed the House and had been approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Before the bill came to the Senate floor, however, it was put on "hold" by Oklahoma Republican
Tom Coburn, and never reached a vote.
Reintroduced in 2008, The Wild Sky Wilderness passed the U.S. Senate on April 10, 2008, and then passed the U.S. House of Representatives a little less than three weeks later on April 29. President Bush signed the Wilderness into law on May 8, 2008.
Private Land
When the Wild Sky Wilderness was first proposed, about 2,000 acres of private land (
inholdings) were within its boundaries. Since 2003 the
Wilderness Land Trust and Cascade Land Conservancy have purchased about one-third of this amount. Efforts continue to acquire the remaining inholdings.
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