BACKGROUND: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wants to designate an additional 2.5 million acres of federal land in California as wilderness with her introduction of the “California Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2002.” Her bill (yet unnumbered) would add to 14 million acres already designated wilderness … Continue reading Senator Barbara Boxer Proposes Designating 2.5 Million More Acres as “Wilderness” In California, by Gretchen Randall