There’ll be plenty of room for new shanty towns in this recession with the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which will grant protected wilderness status to two million acres across nine states. The protected land amounts to largest acreage since a few million acres of California desert were protected in 1994 before being promptly forgotten. California will get 700k acres of protected land and mostly western states (especially in Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah) make up for the rest of the acreage. A few thousand miles of Lake Superior shoreline in Michigan will be protected from developers with condo blueprints as will some creek running through New Jersey.

This is the best news I’ve gotten since finding out that the Ninja Turtles live action movie wasn’t real. At least the land’s safe until the next political go-round.

via Backpacker

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