The World

Ah, Wilderness!

With local and bipartisan support, President Bush and Congress are poised to conserve millions of acres of wilderness area across the nation.

A bill put together by a bipartisan group in Congress, and supported by President Bush, would set aside more wilderness areas nationwide this year than have been protected in the past five years combined. Living on Earth’s Washington correspondent Jeff Young reports from one area slated for conservation, the Shawver Run wilderness in Virginia.