[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3544]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mrs. Murray):
  S. 3028. A bill to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel 
J. Evans Wilderness; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I am pleased to join with Senator Murray 
in introducing legislation to rename the Olympic Wilderness in Olympic 
National Park as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, in honor of former 
Washington Senator and Governor Dan Evans.
  Dan Evans has had a long and distinguished career in public service. 
He was first elected Governor of Washington in 1964 and was reelected 
in 1968 and 1972. In 1983, he was appointed to fill the term of the 
late Senator Henry M. Jackson and served an additional term in the 
Senate before retiring in January, 1989. From 1993 through 2005, 
Senator Evans served as a member of the University of Washington Board 
of Regents.
  During his time in the Senate, Senator Evans was a leader in the 
passage of two major wilderness bills in our state. He was a cosponsor 
of the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act, which designated more than one 
million acres of national forest lands in Washington as wilderness. And 
he was the lead sponsor of the Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988, 
which designated more than 1.5 million acres of Wilderness in Olympic, 
Mount Rainier and North Cascade National Parks.
  Thanks to Senator Evans' dedication to protecting many of our state's 
most spectacular wildlands, Washingtonians and all Americans are able 
to enjoy outdoor recreation opportunities in some of our Nation's most 
iconic areas, including protection of more than 876,000 acres of 
wilderness in Olympic National Park.
  This dedication will not affect the management of either the national 
park or the wilderness, but it will appropriately recognize the 
important role of Dan Evans in securing the permanent protection of 
this magnificent landscape.
                                 ______