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Show Wednesday, August 'BLM THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 7, 1985 - Pag Proposal Flawed' onservationists' Alliance Seeks More Wilderness The Utah Wilderness Coalition, an alliance of conservationists and conservation organizations from throughout Utah, is promoting a comprehensive wilderness proposal for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Utah. This proposal takes in nearly three times the area proposed by BLM. The coalition calls the BLM plan "seriously flawed." Included in the coalition's proposal is nearly 1.8 million more acres than the BLM even studied for wilderness values in Utah. It includes some of the state's most spectacular wild resources, according to Jim Catlin of the Sierra Club, a member of the coalition. "Our proposal is comprehensive," said Catlin. "It includes all the acreage in Utah that is, in fact, wilderness and that deserves to be protected as wilderness. There is no guesswork here. We have developed our proposal over the past seven ) Creek-Moro- Slopes-Factor- r r have walked the lands in our proposal, and they have flown The Metate Arch, within the Carcass merely including inadequate "specimen" areas as the BLM proposes to do. The 5 million acreas include lands ranging from the Bryce Canyon Plateau to the deep canyons of the Colorado River, across the eastern Great Basin, from the Hot Desert to the rugged wilds atop the Book Cliffs. The areas are: The West Desert Region. 534.867 acres. These 19 units Most of the contestants ple, have already represented their cities in the Miss Utah pageant. Most of them won't go back next June, but the winner of the Miss Utah County Pageant will. "It gives them another opportunity to go back (to the state pageant) and since they are a little older they have a better chance." of the says Jeri Wood, Miss Utah County Pageant. "It seems their maturity and having gone through two or three scholarship pageants helps." Cindy Quinn and Gina Larsen both represented cities during their first trip to the Miss Utah pageant. With the added experience they had their second times in the state pageant, they both won the state crown and went on to the Miss USA pageant. The Miss Utah County Scholarship Pageant will be 8 p.m. Thursday at Mountain View High School The Region. ing 29 Escalante-Kaiparowit- s acres, includroadless areas that reach 1,163,021 to Capitol from Bryce Canyon Reef National Park. Among them are the area which contains a number Paria-Hackberr- y of perennial streams and forms a bridge between the Bryce Canyon Plateau and the canyons of the Colorado; as well as the Upper Escalante Canyon drain- - Save on Top Quality Tires during our Vacation Time - SALT LAKE CITY A press conference is scheduled at 9 a.m. at the Ambassador Club Thursday to announce The National Clean Air Fund release of an Environmental Protection Agency map that identifies red flag areas in national parks, wilderness areas and national forests in the western United States. The maps show that lakes and streams in the state of Utah are vulnerable to acid rain damage. Specials Aug. 7th thru Aug. 17th8:00 am to 5:30 pm CO-O- P WEATHER MARK color slide of the EPA map and four black and white subre-gionmaps will be available along with detailed assessments. The news conference will be conducted by Nina Dougherty of the Sierra Club and Di Allison. President of the League of Women Voters of Utah. 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Availability Noted . UWT1W yon. $39. South to Provo WEST DfSCRT in the Joshua Tree area and Beaver Dam Wash, the Cougar Canyon, important for its water resources: and Red Mountain, which abuts scenic Snow Can- Acid Rain Map in this exam- a tat Range, a number of Great Basin roadless areas, the Rockwell sand dunes area, and the Wah Wah Mountains and scenic Granite Peak area. The Zion and Hot Desert Region. 239,119 acres. It includes 15 wilderness areas that adjoin Zion National Park, among them Parunuweap Canyon, LaVerkin Creek, Black Ridge and Deep Creek, as well as Moquith Mountain which contains part of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. The Hot Desert region includes the desert tortoise habi CO-O- P 4 COALITION Garden Unit of the Kaiparowits Region. s include the House Mountain has done inadequately, protect enough critical wildlife habitat to support animal populations, such as the threatened desert tortoise, rather than year's county pageant, for Canyon-Devil- 1 225-384- WIlOFHNtSS f W County Queen Pageant Set SS WILDERNESS " months, with six meetings around Utah. Our members Mt"'" g PROPOSAL James Catlin STERN DRIVES y UTAH I any pageant leading up to the state pageant. In fact, the Miss Utah County Pageant and other county pageants have perhaps a better chance than do the city pageants. Consider that two of the past five from Miss Utah representatives County went on to win the state crown. Cindy Quinn (now Cindy Quinn Murdock) won the county and state titles in 1982 and Gina Larsen duplicated the feat in 1984. Larsen wa. not a county queen but represented the county when the queen chose not to go. That they were representing a county tin this case, Utah County) instead of a city might be more than just a coincidence. It might have had something to do with the fact county pageant winners are often at the Miss Utah Pageant for their second time. dropped from wilderness consideration that were later restored after legal challenges by conservationists. Among them are Mount Pinnell and its huge Swap and Tarantula Mesas. Mount Ellen and the beautiful badlands of the Blue Hills, and the Dirty Devil River region that includes Robber's Roost, famed hideout of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. If Congress accepts the proposal, coalition spokesmen said, 85 percent of Utah will still be open to and vulnerable to commercial, industrial and military development. "It is crucial, as much for economic reasons as for environmental reasons, that we set aside this small portion of our lands and make them a storehouse for ourselves and for our children," Catlin said. "Our wilderness proposal is nothing more than an extension of the wisdom of setting aside something to ensure our material well-beinagainst future need, of saving before we consume," he declared. BLM wilderness." The Miss Utah County Scholarship Pageant has as great a chance of producing the next Miss Utah as claims the BLM illegally 7 acreage in Utah that is, in fact, wilderness and that deserves to be protected as The coalition's proposal includes 141 roadless units organized into eight major regions of the state. The regional approach is designed to: protect natural geological land forms and plant and animal comunities, protect entire natural river systems to the greatest extent possible, protect the wide diversity of bioregions, land forms and othr natural values in Utah - things the BLM is supposed to consider in its wilderness anavlsis but units have a number of 13 roadless areas the coalition Butte complex of desert badlands, uplifting reefs, and deeply cut river canyons. Book Cliffs and the Uinta Basin Region. 619,000 acres. The 12 units here range from the popular isolation Canyon of the Green River to the vast and wild uplands of the Book Cliffs with their Douglas fir and wildlife, including black bear and elk. Henry Mountains and Dirty Devel Region, 750,580 acres. "Our proposal is comprehensive. It includes all the over them. These 5 million acres are wilderness with no substantial human impacts." These age and Circle Cliffs. Canyonlands Region, 392,780 acres. Its 19 units include many of the roadless areas along the major rivers in the region, including the Green, Colorado and Dolores rivers - lands outside Canyonlands National Park that are every bit as spectacular as those within the park. Cedar Mesa Region, 689,740 acres. The lti units there would protect the enormous archaelog-ica- l resources found in Grand Gulch. Fish Creek and Dark Canyon, as well as a number of other places in the region. San Rafael Swell, 644,890 acres. 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