Last year. the Senate passed the Irish Wilderness bill. The House. however. defeated a rule request to bring the Irish Wilderness bill to a vote during the final days of the lameduck session. The bill would preserve the Irish Wilderness which is rich in human and natural history. The area was named for an Irish immigrant priest. Father John Hogan. who in 1858 established a settlement in the beautiful wooded area now called the Irish Wilderness. This became the home of many who had been forced to leave Ireland only to find similar poverty and discrimination in the labor camps around St.
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