1.   America, for example, seems to have settled on a policy of preserving its national forests and adding incrementally to its protected wilderness.

2.   At my urging, the House twice voted to dedicate the coastal plain as statutorily protected wilderness.

3.   Millions of acres of public land in California would be designated as protected wilderness under a bill introduced in Congress on Tuesday.

4.   The bill would emphasize protecting species on lands already set aside for conservation, such as the huge tracts of protected wilderness and national parks in the West.

5.   The policy encouraged the expansion of oil and gas exploration, including in protected federal wilderness lands, greater reliance on nuclear energy and improvement of energy distribution systems.

6.   The elder Unser pleaded innocent Tuesday in Colorado to illegally driving his snowmobile into a federally protected wilderness area.

7.   This is not the first time the government has given the OK to mine underneath protected wilderness.