Owners of prominent local businesses pushed for passage of the pending Oregon Badlands Wilderness bill yesterday, calling on Senator Gordon Smith to support the conservation bill.
Kirk Schueler, president of Brooks Resources Corporation, Rod Bien, owner of Pandora’s Backpack and J. Tyler Reichert, owner and founder of Silver Moon Brewing, unveiled a new print ad, which appears in today’s Bulletin, listing more than 100 local businesses that back wilderness protection for the Badlands. Area business leaders say wilderness protection will help boost the local economy.
Sen. Wyden has introduced a measure to permanently protect as wilderness 30,000 acres of the Oregon Badlands 15 miles outside of Bend.
