House GOP to examine administration's 'wild lands' policy - The Hill's E2-Wire

By Andrew Restuccia - 02/22/11 03:10 PM ET

"The so-called “wild lands” policy, which the Department of Interior unveiled in December, allows the administration to protect land that has not been designated as wilderness land. Republicans have slammed the policy as an effort to circumvent Congress’s authority and raised fears that it could be used to make lands off-limits to oil-and-gas drilling."