Runoff From Mount Hood, Oregon Image credit:Tim Palmer The second largest Wild and Scenic Rivers package in history passed the US Senate yesterday, safeguarding over 1,000 miles of rivers in Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah, Vermont, and Massachusetts. New Wild and Scenic rivers

will include rivers on Oregon’s Mount Hood (as pictured), the Snake River headwaters in Wyoming, and the Taunton River in Massachusetts….

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US Senate Goes With The Flow: Wild & Scenic Rivers Act Passed