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SCOTUS skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law; Iowa advocates for immigrants push back on Texas-style deportation bill; new hearings, same arguments on both sides for ND pipeline project; clean-air activists to hold "die-in" Friday at LA City Hall.

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"Squad" member Summer Lee wins her primary with a pro-peace platform, Biden signs huge foreign aid bills including support for Ukraine and Israel, and the Arizona House repeals an abortion ban as California moves to welcome Arizona doctors.

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The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken, and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.

Sabinoso Wilderness Bill: It’s ‘Sabin-Oh-So Worth Protecting’

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007   

Las Vegas, NM – It's 'been-oh-so' perfect for so long, and it should stay that way. That's the aim of a bill in Congress to protect the Sabinoso Wilderness, northeast of Las Vegas. The U.S. House Public Lands Subcommittee considers a plan to designate 20,000 additional acres of the area as federally protected wilderness this week.

The Sabinoso is best known for the dramatic Canon Largo along the Canadian River. Jim O'Donnell, of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance says the landscape also should be preserved as one of the area's best economic assets.

"The people of Las Vegas, the San Miguel County Commission and the economic development folks in San Miguel look at this as an economic development tool. So there'’s a lot of support for it –- actually, there isn't any opposition."

He says the bill, HR 2632, would protect public land that is home to the red-tailed hawk, coyote, mountain lion, gray fox, and other wildlife. O'Donnell feels the lesson learned from the successful fight to protect the Valle Vidal was to be proactive, by preserving important wilderness areas in New Mexico before they're threatened.

"What we want to do now is look at the state, decide which areas are very important to be protected, and protect them proactively, so that we're not on the defensive sometime in the future."

The bill, which was introduced this summer by Representative Tom Udall, will be heard by the Congressional subcommittee as part of a handful of wilderness-related legislation.





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