Senator Whitehouse and Congresswoman Dean Introduce the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act

Custer-Gallatin National Forest next to Yellowstone National Park – photo by Custer-Gallatin National Forest.

On Thursday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in the U.S. Senate (S. 1198) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 2420) with fifteen original cosponsors across both chambers.

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act will designate approximately 23 million acres of inventoried...