| Show Additional Uinta Wilderness Area Planned in High Uinta Uina Mountains The Forest orest Service mends that acres b Bat Bat- Bated ed In the High Uinta Moun Moun- Mountains be designated as the high Wilderness II This proposal announced Thursday of last week by Re- Re Regional He gional Forester Floyd Iverson means that the area would be managed primarily to protect and preserve its wilderness character THE HIGH Wilderness will include a major portion of the present High ilive live area and additional lands of the th Ashley and Wasatch Na Na- Na National Forests acres of mountain land will be added to the primitive area acres presently within the area will be excluded The new wilderness w will have acres sonic some acres larger than the present tive region Timber wildlife minerals for for- forage age buildings and recreation will all be administered by the forest service in harmony with wilderness management under the new proposal Hunting in inthe inthe the new area will be continued under State laws lit Mr Iverson reports THE CREATION of the new wilderness area follows the Wilderness Act of September 3 1964 he added This act requires existing primitive areas to be appraised for possible inclusion in the national wilderness tern lem The wilderness qualities of the High area were recognized back in 1931 Mr 11 Iverson states when it was de primitive Portions of the primitive reo re- region gion not to be included In the new wilderness concept are acres near Moon 1 Lake of gentle topography not in keeping with the general chara chara- character eter of the Con Con- Construction work such as roads built to dams across several small lakes has destroyed its wilderness character mil lion board feet of commercial timber in this area will be available for cutting acres near the Upper Still water will be excluded to avoid conflicts with the proposed Up per Stillwater reservoir reservoir part of the utah acres of the he Hayden Fork area Several spur roads lead from Highway to that area acres near the Duchesne River to place the new bound bound- boundary ary on Marshall Creek ADDITIONS of national for for- forest est est land tg td new w wilderness classification tion will include acres in the Uinta River M Beaver Creek area in in- in included because of its suitability to the new concept The forest service reports the commercial worth of this area to generally be less than its wilderness value acres near the west westfork fork of Black Forks Haydel Fork area where the country is characterized by rocky locky near vertical canyon walls and rock domes acres in the Henrys I Fork ork Blacks Fork area where when the wilderness boundary will be placed on logical and 1573 acres in the cast fork of Blacks Fork again for boun boun- boun boundary dary purposes re Individuals organization reo and public dials are arc urged to express their views on this proposal at the public hearing to be held at 9 am Wednesday October 12 in room of the Federal in Salt Lake City forest officials report J |
