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Show Tuesday, May 30, 1989 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 11 A icuucrs to the editor Disagrees with editors opinion Editor: Having read the give and take on the wilderness issue between Sun Advocate Editoi Steve Christensen, and AOG Director Bill Howell, I feel compelled to write a response to Mr. Christensens latest opinion. He writes that (1) there will be more wilderness desig nated by Congress in spite of all we can do or say, and; (2) there is nothing the public can do about how wilderness will be managed by the Forest Service and BLM. I would like Mr. Christensen to know that on point ( 1 ) the majority pf people in Southern Utah are not quite ready to roll over and play dead on this issue. We hope and believe that it is possible to prevent a wilderness bill from passing both houses of Congress, and it is in the best interest of the people of Southern Utah to do so. On point (2), the management plans of all the public land agencies which are now responsible for administering wilderness areas are being challenged in courts across the land by litigious obstruc tionists. While falsely operating under the guise of envir onmentalists and conservationists they have many times been successful in finding judges sympathetic to their viewpoints and through judicial edict changed the way wilderness areas are managed. Also, management of both public and private lands surrounding wilderness areas is being challenged and changed in like manner. If wilderness designation is placed on the proposed areas in Southern Utah, the farmers and other traditional users of the rivers and streams would wrangling over wilderness come to an end. For the past three years I have ate, slept and drank wilderness, until I wilderam ready to throw-uness. Nevertheless, after we have gone through the BLM wilderness study, it will then be time to start the national parks wilderness study, and then it will be time to do anti-humani- st be non-conformi- - Duane L. Collard Emery County Commissioner Tell Chamber of County Commerce. There are two very good, legitimate reasons for this effort one, to help draw crowds to our area; and two, to preserve the rich heritage of the past and present here in Castle Valley. We have had and do have now many people who are like the colorful crags that surround us. Their lives, when we come to know them, have as many fascinating facets, rich in sunlight and shade, as do our rocks and canyons. This hidden wealth should be brought forward, recorded and preserved. There is a growing nationwide movement toward reviving the custom of hearing stories told by the people, to the our "Old Location' AL We would rather sell our inventory to you at Editor: David II. Hilding, M.D. , in a May 16, 1989 letter to the Sun Advocate states that Bill How- executive director of the Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments is allied with those who are radically opposed to preserving any wilderness in this part of the state. In fact, Howell represents the wishes of the peoples elected representatives in southeast Utah. Our position is that congressional wilderness designation is an irrevocable commitment of our natural resource base to a single purpose. This commitment includes tremendous actual and potential costs that will be paid primarily by local economies. Our ability to develop our water may be severely restricted. Roads will be closed. Subsurface mineral potentials will be forfeited The ability to manage wildlife and wildlife habitat will be severely restricted. Activities on adjacent nondesignated lands will be restricted or curtailed. School trust lands will be devalued. All of these things will result in lost jobs, lost economic opportunity, reduced access for recreation and economic purposes, and higher taxes to maintain ell, the people. An existing essential public sendees. The wilderness debate is not a simplistic question of merely whether we should have more or less wilderness. Things are often more complex that they appear at first glance. Dr. Hilding is apparently unaware that vast tracts of public lands in southeast Utah are now managed to protect values associated with wilderness. Lands are now managed as closed to mineral Come forward, you Slove- BIG SAVINGS have to move it Another opinion on wilderness international storytelling festival in Tennessee, which runs three full days, draws huge crowds from all over the world, not just from across the nation. A cowboy from neighboring Nevada is one of the favorite storytellers there. There is no reason, says Thelma Jones, Chamber of Commerce director, we cannot have just as great a festival here as the hillbillies of Tennessee have. Our mountains are taller than their hills, and so our tall tales are taller than their tall tales. After all, this was the home country of Matt Warner, Butch Cassidy and their pals. There was talk in the old saloons that Butch came to town to attend his own funeral. Would you like to hear that story? It will be told. Did you ever hear the story about. Joe Swasey and his pet bobcat? What is your favorite story? Come and tell it, and lets have some good old belly laughs together. 21 WEST MAIN, PRICE Take advantage of our Then we won t for people, story, dramatize your story, rhyme your story, tell your story. Tell and listen, listen and tell. More details will be forthcoming shortly. Get ready to do your part. Give Thelma a Castle Counring, try Color is on the march. Look out, Tennessee, here we come. Beautiful trophies are being made to be presented to the five best (most interesting and entertaining) storytellers, but everyone who tells or listens will be benefitted. Jim C. Young 637-278- 8, Editor: Something nicp is starting to happen in Price and our beloved Castle Valley. An annual storytelling festival is being projected by the Carbon has totally run amuck, and that is why we will be talking a lot more about wilderness than you want to hear. So we do not need to lock-uvast areas of Sou them U tah to keep them from being destroyed by Southern Utahns. We do need to continue using the land wisely, with the appropriate conservation practices we have learned over the past 100 years. If we do this, the public lands will be just as beautiful and just as useful 100 years from now as they have been to the previous generations. Congressional wilderness is not a foregone conclusion. I believe it is an idea whose and gone. It time has come is not in the best interests of the people, and I and the other elected officials of Southern Utah are determined to use whatever time we can give in this process to continue edu- - MOWN me a story p derness study areas. If these areas receive congressional designation, the chance of more units being built goes from slim to none. Wilderness designation will adversely affect our traditional recreation opportunities and employment opportunities in many far reaching and as yet unforseen ways. When we live in an area having 92 percent public land and only 8 percent private, we must be very careful how that 92 percent is managed. - will death. study, ad infinitum, as this use. (Think about it.) The smokestacks on the large power plants in Emery County can be seen from the high parts of some of the wil- Our "New Location" wilderness designation until this insidious idea is either killed or dies a natural another forest wilderness and wilderness designation makes grazing a al p soon see their rights challenged in the courts of far distant cities. Livestock grazing on all public lands is under fire from all obstructionist groups, mons. Come forward, all of you. Get ready, polish up your talents. Everyone who has a story, an interesting story, to tell will be welcome. Sing your eating the public about the adverse effects of congression- Like you, Mr. Christensen, glad to see the I would be nians from Spring Glen, you Italians and Greeks from all over the valley, you Swedes, you Danishmen, you Catholics, you Protestants, you Mor !! 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Utik Wastlmdan Branch m the Aroarkwi Fork Hofladay Branch Orom y, and myriad other restrictions are intended to protect scenic, recreational, wildlife, riparian and other values. Beyond all this, congressional wilderness adds a whole new dimension of restrictions and irrevocable foreclosure of opportunity that we believe is onerous at best and punitive at worst on local and state economies and on all those w ho use the public lands except perhaps the recreational purist who sees himself as having little at stake in the local economy. Those who will be excluded include the very young, elderly, families and those of limited physical ability, in short, wilderness actively excludes the general public. We believe that the greatest share of the people derive the greatest benefit from the land when it is maintained under multiple use principles as we now have them. This is our position and this is the position Bill Howell has capably represented. Dr. Hilding espouses two serious contradictions. He states that we have wilderness now which is contributing very little to our economic welfare. lie also says that wilderness will increase eco- nomic opportunities ... because we will be able to derive income from the tourism wilderness areas will attract. Either wilderness will or will not contribute to local economies. Dr. Hilding doesnt seem to be sure which would be the case. Secondly, he says that a few people benefit economically now from their monopoly of public lands. This is meaningless rhetoric since no one has a monopoly on public lands. Furthermore, those who generate dollars from the land help all of us by creating jobs and paying taxes and medical bills. Clyde Thompson chairman Commission Emery County GOP convention set for June 17 The Utah State Republican Organizing Convention will be held June 17, 1989 at Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City from 9 a.m. until noon, to set the pace for a GOP organizing mandate. Elections will be held for the positions of state chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer, together with the party leaders for each of the congressional districts. There have been 2,506 delegates elected from throughout the state to represent their counties and voting districts at the biennial meeting. The states Republican congressmen and elected leaders will also be in attendance, as well as legislative, state and local (Mr THANK YOU We wish to express our appreciation and thanks for the help and consideration given our mother during her recent stay at the hospital. To Dr.s Heiner, Etzel, Kincaid, Feuerstein, Williams, Nurses, Helper Rescue Unit 3, ambulance crew and emergency staff, Jim Piacitelli, Patient Services, Ken Woodruff Physical Therapist and assistants, and the paramedics. 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