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Show Public Is8rm Shfed On Arches ASteraflens A public healing ha-; been scheduled in Moab next December to consider the proposed selling aside of 12,712 acres in Arelw, National Monument as a wilderness area. As such, no roads or (niprovi nienls could be (constructed in the designated desig-nated area. Tt includes Unit , nort horn-most part of the monument, which contains -1.552 acres of rugged land dominated by the concentration of sandstone sand-stone formations known as Devil's Garden. In this unit are found such well-known well-known arc-lies as Landscape, Land-scape, which spans 2;)L feet and rises 105 feet. Unit 2 of the proposed wilderness section, contains con-tains 2,873 acres, characterized charac-terized by rough topography topogra-phy and numerous narrow avenues found between high, vorticlo 200-300 feet walls. Unit 3, 5,317 acres, is known as tho Windows section of Arches, and is in Hie central and largest portion of the monument. The eastern flank of the area is cut in a north-south north-south direction by the rugged rug-ged and remote lower part of Trtt Wash. Superintendent Bates E. Wit-on said for all practical practi-cal purposes, the wilder-ness wilder-ness i-e erve would change no'h'ing. Basically, he staled," sta-led," it is preserved as a wildorno s system anyway. All the propo od wilderness wilder-ness territory lies wilh'n the 31,000 acre boundary of Arches. The hearing for the proposal pro-posal comprising 12,742 acres ac-res within 'Arches National Nation-al Monument, will be held in the City-County Building, Build-ing, Moab, beginning at 9 a.m. Dec. 14th. Other hearings concerning other 'ocomm'f nded wilderness 'resei-vcs in Utah have been Isiohcdulod throughout the Istate. |