The accounts below are in Audubon's own words, from the minutes of the Board of Directors' Annual Meeting last September. There is no hope of congressional action to preserve them as wilderness.
Administrative protection is possible.
We have raised the issue's visibility in the White House, but it's not enough. So we did a poll, using the president's pollster. He sent results to White House chief of staff. The poll shows that Americans, strongly, care about wilderness to the extent of favoring it over jobs. The administration has said they will take some kind of action.