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Show In the perspective of trying to apply the purpose of the Wilderness Act to the Uinta Range land mass, stream drainage by stream drainage, timbered ridge versus exposed rock, lodgepole pine thicket with or without ground cover, areas of the downed spruce giants of a previous age, marsh, wetland, areas where I had observed wildlife, animal trails, people trails (sometimes used mutually), meadows - these all were the criteria indicating the existing presence of the biotic diversity emerging out of the natural physical features. The boundary for the 659,000 acre High Uintas Wilderness fell into place as it incorporated, not the consumptive uses of the neighboring public today, but the natural and interrelated associations of rock, vegetation and its living and dependent animals, birds, reptiles and fish. It would be this cohesive whole which could be proposed as a 659,000 acre part of the nations1 wilderness heritage. Let the natural fires create the vegetative diversity for the wildlife diversity on this Range. Let some of the wildlife species native to this Range be reintroduced so that the future may know the past. Let the unique character of a Uinta Range be no more diminished than it is for it can never be replaced. Let the poles for mine props- in southern Utah, now proposed as a timber outlet, be located, where their .use really doesn*t matter. Let those who have lost their sense of wonder move to the midwest cornfields - forthey lack the vision needed to understand wilderness., or the heart to feel it. Please accept this justification for a Citizens High Uintas Wilderness Proposal of 659,000 acres, in the Land Use Plan, labelled Dl. Sincerely,y fcHKAXLj i(%7iAMuA Dorothy Harvey High Uintas Wilderness Coalition HM-5 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 5^220 |
