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"I am glad that I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map in which to be free?" Aldo Leopold, A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC, 1949

Thank you, Senator Ron Wyden and Senator Jeff Merkley for voting to move S. 22 today. Thank you, former Senator Gordon Smith, for your work with Senator Wyden in the last two Congresses to get the Cascade-Siskiyou bill -- with 23,000+ acres of Cascade-Siskiyou backcountry to be designated as the Soda Mountain Wilderness -- as close to reality as it is now. So many of us have been working and waiting for this for so long.

Dave Willis, Chair
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council
Ashland, OR

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