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Padilla proposes increased protection for 1 million acres of California wilderness FacebookTwitterEmail in 2017. Sen. Alex Padilla’s bill would increase the size of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by 109,000 acres.Dania Maxwell / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Towering old-growth redwoods at the Lady Bird Johnson Grove in Redwood National Park. Sen. Alex Padilla’s legislation would designate more than 300,000 acres of public lands in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties, where many redwoods grow, as wilderness, the most restrictive classification of federal land.Michael Maloney / The Chronicle 2005Show MoreShow Less Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to increase protection of more than 1 million acres of public lands in California, mirroring part of a wilderness bill approved by the House earlier this year.

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