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Show 1M*5 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wis. 5^220 May 11, 1980 Pete and Fred - Re: Pete's note to me following his conversation on CUP strategy with Fred My husband and I have just been sitting at the dinner table talking about what a hard nut to crack is this CUP issue. Partly because Utah lacks some elements which have made other environmental issues in other States successful. Take the River of No Return Wilderness, as a good example. (Idaho) 1 The 1972 summer I was studying roadless National Forest lands along the South Fork of the Salmon River for Wilderness classification, for the Sierra Club, three or four volunteer teams, under a knowledgeable leader*spent the summer determining features, values and boundaries for this Wilderness. I fed and lent my campsite to one exhausted team which arrived at 2 AM in the morning. Before teams went out they were instructed on the inventory orocess. When they returned, the inventory was all reviewed, reports filed and sent to local Sierra Club, San Francisco, and to the Forest Service. They were the basis for continuing oressures on the Agency and elected officials. So there was continuity of effort - a TWS Wilderness Rep. for Idaho finally working with Sierra Club and other groups on this issue. In addition to the field teams, Sierra Club had "floating" experts on the Forest Service, its timber management, logging strategies etc. The weekend the one field team took oyer my McCall, Idaho, campsite, two of these experts from Spokane and points west spent the day advising and shaping the team s work. WE HAVE NEVER DONE THIS - TAKEN VOLUNTEERS OUT AND MAPPED OUT AREAS FOR WATER DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACTS AND OTHER PERTINENT DATA. Dick did this for the Forest Service and BLM roadless area studies - covered the entire State of Utah with summer and weekend volunteers. Gave them guidelines for inventorying and evaluating and assembled - roadless area by roadless area - tiles and information. 2. Idaho has had two Governors, at least which have supported Wilderness of varying amounts. 6t<H4c':*"tJ UTAH HASN'T! Yet Dick forced the Governor to form State Wilderness study group to determine both a State philosophy and policy for Wilderness. We monitored meetings for a year. Saw some real understanding of what Wilderness Classification is for,emerge out of initial total hostility! «oh1 h.T +* *A«r *~ ***** !%****. 3 Idaho has had one long-serving and sympathetic Wilderness Senator, Church, who has managed to hang in fairly consistently and in a State whose legislature is largely dominated by mining int-rests and whose national o'^icials are generally developers. 7 tme |
