Show l II X f I PRIMITIVE AW t AREA A 1 1967 PROPOSED ADDITION 1 N RIVERS PROPOSED HIGH WILDERNESS area is shown with the most recent RARE II addition The RARE II proposal is spreading out to include a half million acres and How RARE II will affect High A proposal for a half million acre High Wilderness area is the result of the final environmental impact statement on RARE II that Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland announced January the RARE II program recommended acres in areas' for wilderness acres in areas for J w FOREST includes all wilderness recommendations with the exception of the area on the fringe areas of the new wilderness wilderness and acres in areas for further For the Uintah the recommendation was for wilderness for portions of four areas surrounding the 1967 High Wilderness Fifteen totaling were proposed for non According to the final environmental the 15 areas allocated to will become available April 1979 for multiple resource use activities other than Entry for type activities and development will be described and controlled by existing or future land and resource management These plans may permit harvesting and other management Involving The half million acre High Wilderness proposed in RARE II is composed of acres of the original High Primitive acres proposed for addition in the 1967 High Wilderness and acres identified in RARE The resulting RARE II proposal extends from Leidy Peak on the east to the North Fork of the on the west and includes most of the alpine ridges and Excluded from the proposal are Lakeshore Marsh Lake and Moon Project features of the Upalco and Uintah Units of the except for the stabilization of high are also outside the recommended Anyone desiring additional information on the proposal should contact Andy Godfrey at the Forest Supervisors office in Naomi RECOMMENDED BD Wellsville m WILDERNESS AREAS Hi FURTHER STUDY gg Burch Creek S I V Olympus Dromedary woo Santaquin Nephi A Fishlake W MOAB Box-Death Hollow Dark Ashdown Canyon Gorge cedar P Red Canyon North Red Canyon South TP Pine Valley ST. GEORGE RECOMMENDED wilderness areas in Utah as proposed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of its RARE II |