Show The Bureau of Land Management will make public in mid- according to present areas it has identified for study and interim management policies them ln its the Forest Service is stu- dying million acres of land in the National Forest and Grasslands System for wilderness or about one out of every three acres of land within the And is studying about 46 million outside of Alaska for wilderness That is about one out of every 10 acres in the public domain under the control of Alaska wilderness study has been deferred for the time being pen- ding settlement of a continuing dispute over how much federal land should go to the state and Alaska Natives and where and how much federal land should be designated for special pur- and and livestock and often to residents in the affected areas as If ii there were is is one one underlying theme meme in in the public that the Forest Ser- vice and have received to it is that few people recommended further or study of the af- according to Chief John R. McGuire of the Forest They want decisions now on whether areas are going to be wilderness or Forest Service and officials The public is cool to the fact that two separate wilderness studies are going on in the West by different And officials are concerned that so many people get wilderness study mixed up with RARE the Forest Service wilderness study which has been highly It's not just the public that's confused either Western Resources Wrap-up asked a Western Senator within the past year how he felt the RARE II study was coming along In his state have just talked to Secretary Andrus in the Interior Department about it and he sa it ib going very he Ml II There is no question that American industry dealing with public lands has factored some wilderness into its think- This is a change from industry's hard-line stance of years ago when it bitterly opposed any wilderness designation of public Terry acting chief of wilderness and en- area told in a recent are getting ques- from industry about how much wilderness there should These questions are being he by oil and and mining in- in It ii appears appears that mai nearly one raie out oui 01 of every 10 acres of land in the entire country is likely to end up in due to agency review and fhe Congressional creation of Instant The definition of wilderness has wilderness areas in the East even though man's activities were evident in public land which may be of any the naturalness of the area must be evident and the imprint of man's work must be substantially un- The area must provide an opportunity V solitude or an outstanding opportunity for a primitive and type of contiguous acres 10 dc con should have the above be con dS wilh improvements where the evidence of man and his im- pact on the land are minimal and where non-conforming uses can be removed or obliterated over There is no question that both Forest Service and will be making judg- ment calls on areas recommended for wilderness which do not meet the classic concept of true wilderness un- touched by Officials admit this non-conforming uses PRIMITIVE AREA STATE AND ACREAGE Alaska Arizona Canyon Paria Canyon Chemise Mountain Colorado Powderhorn p Centennial Spires Nevada N. v Oregon I Utah Dark Canyon Grand Gulch Paria Canyon Wyo- Creek AMOUNT IN The latest compilation of the Forest Service indicates that about acres of land are in National Wilderness Preservation of which i are in the National 2 are in the National in National Wildlife and 12 lands There are units in he System of which are in the National As of there were 16 proposals comprising acres in the Na- hf and Congress had mandated 40 areas totalling acres within the Na- Forests be studied for wilderness wilderness designation in the Forest Service RARE II wilderness study II stands for ut designated 1964 Wilderness the administration can only recommend wilderness status for designated priority consideration in its wilderness study to 55 existing primitive and natural as the Secretary of In- is directed to report to the dent on their wilderness values by July There are 11 primitive areas and 44 natural areas in this NATURAL AREA Cove Natural Forest Study Area Vermillion Cliffs Big Sage and Gambel Baker Cypress Lava Rock Island Cypress Rare Lizard and Snake China Cup Butte Grassland Square Butte Mountain Meadow Pygmy Sage Pine Goshute Canyon Swamp Cedar Shoshone Ponds Pine Creek Canyon Sunrise Mountain Virgin Mountain Trout El Malpais Mathers f Guadalupe Canyon Brewer Spruce Douglas Fir Little Sink Western Juniper Lost Forest Escalante Canyon North Escalante Phipps-Death Hollow Joshua Tree Link FlaU Christmas was once like Easter in that it was a movable celebrated on a different date each St. bishop of is responsible or of the universal date we celebrate today In with the of Pope Junius St. appo la commis- sion to f the precise date of Christ s The theologians of the Church finally agreed upon December 25 and since the year this date has been |