On December 1, 2006 President Bush signed the New England Wilderness Act of 2006. The bill established additional Wilderness in Vermont and New Hampshire, including a new Wild River Wilderness, and expanded the existing Sandwich Range Wilderness.
 | The complete text of the bill is available in
HTML and PDF format. |
| The USFS has posted the boundary descriptions and PDF maps
here. |
| The bill included significant portions of the lands recommended by the
Friends of Sandwich Range and
Wild River. |
| For a detailed history of the bill and it's passage, see the
news page. |