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Ultimately Hatch's bill got little more than press attention.

The election of Ronald Reagan as president put a friend to the Sagebrush Rebels in the White House.

Reagan appointees slowed down or closed down wilderness designation legislation, and by Reagan's second term, the Sagebrush Rebellion was back to simmering on the back burner of federal land management agencies.