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Show Public Eiiosf opood on roadless areas fluencing a process of this type particularly in the absences of a FS recommendation recom-mendation of a reasonable alternative," he said. "I find it hard to believe that the FS does not have a preference and that the final recommendations will not reflect that preference." "Since we don't know what that preference is," he said, "we are likely to waste a lot of time and energy commenting comment-ing on alternatives which are no longer seriously being considered." Gam also discounted a statement by the FS the total wilderness alternative would have a "slight" overall im -pact on the State. "That finding," find-ing," he says, "flies in the face of the universal experience exper-ience of every elected official of-ficial and ignores the historical his-torical experience with wilderness wil-derness designatons." US Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah) (R-Utah) warned that the public must speak out on proposed options for wilderness areas in Utah to conteract the influence in-fluence of certain well-organized groups." The Utah Republican made his comment in response to the release of the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE n) by the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Garn noted that Agriculture Agricul-ture Secretary Bob Bergland said he wanted the public to have as much voice as possible pos-sible in deciding on future use of the 2,686 roadless areas inventoried by the de -partment, including a total of 3 million acres in Utah. The public comment period ends October 1, and the department depart-ment is to decide by December Dec-ember 29 what lands go to wilderness preservation. The proposals for Utah range from no wilderness at all to designation as wilderness wilder-ness of all three million acres of roadless land administered ad-ministered by the Forest Service (FS). "I hope that individuals, groups and government jurisdictions jur-isdictions will take these proposals seriously and will get involved in the public comment process," Garn said. "There are certain well -organized groups which are ideally suited for in- |