Aberdeen, WA - In an effort to further tame the Wild Olympics proposal, and come closer to legislation, Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks announced on May 3rd that the group is dropping the \"willing seller, willing buyer\" component of the proposal.
The Dicks-Murray version of the proposal would designate 130,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land as wilderness where no logging would be allowed; designate 23 river systems as wild and scenic within Olympic National Forest and the park. But will no longer include a portion that would allow the park to buy up to 20,000 acres of mostly private forest land if a willing seller was found.