{"id":2928,"date":"2016-01-16T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:27","slug":"sutton-mountain-and-painted-hills-area-preservation-and-economic-enhancement-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills Area Preservation and Economic Enhancement Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan9-01.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2930\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan9-01.jpg\" alt=\"Jan9-01\" width=\"763\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan9-01.jpg 763w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Jan9-01-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/a>Scenic mountain is centerpiece of wilderness proposal<br \/>\nIn this photo take Nov. 11, 2015, Ben Gordon, Oregon Natural Desert Association stewardship director, and Chris Perry, a judge in Wheeler County, pose below Sutton Mountain near Mitchell, Ore. The duo have worked together to craft a wilderness proposal to protect the area near Mitchell. Sutton Mountain is a long, 29,000-acre fault block that rises just above the Painted Hills, a popular tourist destination in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. (Zach Urness\/Statesman-Journal via AP)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills Area Preservation and Economic Enhancement Act (S. 1255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 7, Sen. Merkley introduced legislation to designate roughly 58,000 acres of wilderness in the John Day River Basin. The bill includes Sutton Mountain, Pat&#8217;s Cabin, Painted Hills, and Dead Dog wilderness study areas that encircle the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.<br \/>\nThe Sutton Mountain bill would protect incredible vistas, deep canyons, and prime habitat for elk, mule deer, raptors, and unique plants.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is supported by local county commissions and elected officials, landowners and residents, business owners and conservation groups, whitewater rafting and boating communities, and hunters and anglers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/January-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Read more about Sutton Mountain<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/senate-bill\/1255\" target=\"_blank\"> Text of S-1255<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/projects\/americas-wilderness\/legislation\" target=\"_blank\">Active America Wilderness Legislation (bill in congress)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenic mountain is centerpiece of wilderness proposal In this photo take Nov. 11, 2015, Ben Gordon, Oregon Natural Desert Association stewardship director, and Chris Perry, a judge in Wheeler County, pose below Sutton Mountain near Mitchell, Ore. The duo have worked together to craft a wilderness proposal to protect the area near Mitchell. Sutton Mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}