[Dave Workman]

From Wednesday's Seattle P-I: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366580_reichert11.html 2 Democrats back Reichert wilderness bill GOP congressman's measure would expand the Alpine Lakes Area By MATTHEW DALY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Fresh from the creation of the Wild Sky Wilderness, two Democrats have signed onto a bill by Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., to expand a separate federal wilderness area east of Seattle. Reps. Jay Inslee and Norm Dicks of Washington state are the first co-sponsors of a bill that would expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area by about 22,000 acres. They added their names to the bill last week, a month after President Bush signed a bill creating the nearby Wild Sky Wilderness -- a measure Democrats had worked to enact for more than six years. The 106,000-acre wilderness in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is the first new federal wilderness area in Washington state in 24 years....

[treeswarper]

Sounds like it must be an election year or something.

[More Cowbell]

I was just searching NWH to see if anyone had posted this. Here's the link Edit: All fixed