Found this in the General Chit-Chat forum and it seems to be going pretty good...thought I'd get it over in the Land Use section so it can be seen more easily.

Senator Feinstein's Wilderness proposal:

http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=2daf244a-b48a-925b-66be-2e068dc08271

Here is the pdf file with the maps:

http://www.sbwinvps.com/ut/feinstein_wilderness_proposal.pdf

The original thread in Chit-Chat:

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=703762

You have two different proposals there.

The link to Feinstein's web site talks about the Eastern Sierra/San Gabriel Wilderness proposal (AKA McKeon-Boxer Wilderness proposal).

After sitting on the sidelines, Feinstein is finally coming out in support of that bill.

See BlueRibbon Coalition Action alert: http://www.sharetrails.org/alerts/?alert=855

The link to the pdf of maps is Feinstein's wilderness proposal that has yet to be formally introduced as legislation. She has been working on it for some time with few details leaked.

Much of the discussion in the Chit-chat thread is extraneous to the core issue. First, Feinstein's wilderness proposal has very limited Forest Service acreage. The Boxer-McKeon proposal covers a majority of FS acreage.

Second, the issue of fire is faulty. The numbers are skewed. I have been meeting with FS about fire issues over the past couple of months. They are concerned about the size and intensity of fires that are damaging wilderness areas along with the damage to private property in the "wildlands-urban interface".

The Forest Service does have a GIS layer plot of ALL of the fires in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for the past 50 years. The vast majority of those are natural (lighting strike).

Some of the more sever fires have involved wilderness.

It has been easy to pin-point human caused fires. Basically, keep matches away from hikers, lost hunters, out of work volunteer firefighters, and love-lorn forest rangers and the chance of human caused fires is significantly reduced.

I consider this a sneak peek of what the Dem's have in mind for us if they take the White House, to bad this is a lost cause blue State but Nevada if not. Point is the Org's need to spend their money where it can do some good, if we're going to get involved with the Presidential race we need to hook up with people in Battle ground States...TJ