FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Obama signs the Public Lands Management Act
Mar 30, 2009Today President Obama signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009. This bill includes the Spring Basin and Badlands Wilderness bills, creating close to 40,000 acres of new wilderness in Oregon's high desert.
Click here for video footage of President Obama's speech before signing The Public Lands Managment Act of 2009 (from C-SPAN). Listen carefully at 12:21 he mentions "the Badland's of Oregon."
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