WASHINGTON — The House today approved a bill creating a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of Seattle, the first new wilderness area in Washington state in more than 20 years. The bill, introduced by U.S.

Proposed wilderness protections long sought by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette for hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Colorado cleared the House of Representatives Wednesday as part of the largest ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. French Hill's push to expand the Flatside Wilderness Area in Central Arkansas took a major step forward Tuesday when the House of Representatives approved the congressman's ...

The House on Wednesday defeated a bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness — the victim of a renewed Republican push to allow concealed, loaded weapons in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A key House committee voted Wednesday to set aside nearly 277,000 acres in far northern California as federally protected wilderness. It was a long-fought advance for a bill that has ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., and an Arkansas recreation leader made their case Thursday to a House of Representatives subcommittee for expanding the Flatside Wilderness Area, hoping to ...

U.S. Rep Suzan DelBene (D-Medina) praised the passage of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 361) today as well as legislation to ...

What: Wilderness Workshop hike into No Name. When: 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 7. Where: Hike goes into No Name Addition to Continental Divide Wilderness Proposal; meet at intersection of U.S.

The House passed legislation aimed at providing additional protections for more than 1 million acres of public land on the West Coast on Wednesday. The package — which combines six land protection ...

The Wilderness Battlefield near Fredericksburg, Va., in 2008. (Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post) In his Oct. 22 Sunday Opinion column, “House Republicans go down in flames — again,” Dana Milbank ...