Cathedral Rock along the John Day River. Photo from the National Park Service.
It looks like the Wyden-Merkley bill creating a new Wilderness Area in Eastern Oregon finally gets a hearing this morning.
The Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests will take testimony starting at 11:30am Pacfic time. The hearing will be streamed live.
Cathedral Rock along the John Day River. Photo from the National Park Service.
UPDATE: Hearing has been cancelled for today. We haven’t heard when it will be rescheduled.
A bill to create 16,000 new acres of wilderness in Eastern Oregon gets a Senate hearing Tuesday morning.
Called the “Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2010″, the bill arranges a land swap between private landowners and the Bureau of Land Management. The result is two large continuous tracts of land that can be preserved as wilderness.
That includes land near the town of Antelope that was once home to followers of Bagwhan Shree Rajneesh. These days it belongs to Young Life, a Christian youth group.
Senator Wyden sponsored the bill and will chair the hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Pubic Lands and Forests.
Click on this link if you want to follow the hearing online. It’s expected to start about 11:30am Pacific time.
