HeraldNet.com – Local news: Give input about road to Wild Sky Wilderness area

Give input about road to Wild Sky Wilderness area Officials have chosen a $15.7 million plan to fix the damaged main route to the Wild Sky Wilderness area.

By Noah Haglund, Herald Writer

INDEX — A road that leads to the federal Wild Sky Wilderness area could be in line for some extensive repairs soon.

Anybody who wants to learn more about Snohomish County and the federal government’s plans for Index-Galena Road is invited to a meeting scheduled at the Monroe Public Library next week.

Index-Galena Road runs along the Skykomish……

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Wild Sky Wilderness grows by 149 acres

In the Everett Herald today.  Follow the link below.  It should be available for a week or so.  It’s an RSS feed but should view fine.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090115/NEWS01/701159887/-1/RSS02

Wild Sky clears Congress

I got a bit lazy (OR A LOT LAZY) as I figured everybody would know by now.  Thanks to John for spurring me into posting.

Sen. Patty Murray has actually done a count of the days since maps were first unfurled, and activists first met in her Senate office, to talk about a different kind of wilderness in the Cascades. – The rest can be read HERE.