Boxer, Feinstein seek to expand protected parkland

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(01-27) 04:00 PST Washington - -- California's two Democratic senators are renewing plans to add millions of acres of park, wilderness, marine sanctuaries and other conservation lands in the state, including a major expansion of the desert parks, billing the effort in part as a way to boost the tourism economy.

Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday that she is optimistic the lands bills can be enacted in the new session of Congress, after the Senate failed to pass an omnibus parks bill in December's lame-duck session.

"We've done a million acres of wilderness and have a million to go," Boxer said. She introduced legislation, co-sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, to designate the Pinnacles National Monument in the Salinas Valley as a national park and add 2,715 acres to the 26,000 there now.

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1. Kudos to them! nt

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2. Thank you, Senators Boxer and Feinstein.

Oh,how I wish you represented me in the Senate instead of McConnell and Paul