The U.S. Forest Service in partnership with Columbia Center for the Arts is pleased to announce several events during the month of August in celebration of the Wilderness Act.
A conservation group seeking wilderness expansion in the Mount Hood National Forest got a mixed response from Hood River County Commissioners last week after asking to a proposal that would designate well over 3,000 acres of national forest in the county as protected wilderness.
The Oregon Court of Appeals made the right move June 19 when it upheld the gorge commission’s Regional Air Quality Strategy for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. However, it’s important to note that the court’s job wasn’t to evaluate the effectiveness of that strategy, only to make sure it doesn’t violate existing law, including the National Scenic Area Act. Which they determined it doesn’t.
WILD ART: The Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River is looking for artists who have the sense of adventure to explore one of the region’s federally designated wilderness areas. Eighteen artists will be selected for this project by a jury of art professionals. Those chosen will visit one of the following: Indian Heaven, Trapper Creek or Mt. Adams in Washington, and Oregon’s Mark O. Hatfield, Mt. Hood and Badger Creek wilderness areas.
