'More Precious Than Gold': Sweeping House Bill Protects Land Around Yellowstone From Mining

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly this week to pass the most significant public lands bill in over a decade. It will create 700,000 acres of new protected wilderness around the country and protect land bordering Yellowstone National Park from commercial mining.

Caroline Byrd, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, tells Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd that environmentalists have been fighting off commercial mining in the Yellowstone area for decades.