In a rare act of bipartisanship the Senate passed, and the House will soon take up the Natural Resources Management Act. It will create the Devil's Staircase Wilderness in the Coast Range; it'll protect the Chetco River from mining, and add hundreds of miles of Oregon waterways to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden took to the Senate floor and spoke of how the bill is the embodiment of the legacy of Oregon's late Republican Governor Tom McCall