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Show lion acres of designated Wilderness. Carter and UWA offered 3.2 million acres‘as a com- other environmental issues will be overshad- promise. But the battle lines were*so clearly drawn that UWA was caught in a blistering “We cannot continue the politics of stalemate," Carter observed. "We have to find a way to move this issue forward. My environ- crossfire. BORN AGAIN UWA became akin to a museum piece, put away on a shelf to collect the dust of his- owed by it. mental peers have to see that the politics of hate and divisiveness don't work." By the same token, Carter contends that has emerged from its dormancy as the High Uintas Preservation Council. “The board of UWA put the organization in hibernation," Carter recalled. "I took the summer off and went on some long hikes in the Uintas. On one particular hike, I had one of those experiences: I came on a coyote and we just stared at each other. On the way back, I not only came across the coyote, but the whole family. They were fishing in a creek. That did it.” Carter began calling and writing the members of the old UWA board. "I said, hey, what do you think about an organization set up to address one geographic place?" Because the Utah Wilderness Association was established to monitor environmental issues of every kind throughout Utah, some topics could not be researched and debated in detail. But now, Carter explained, the focus has been narrowed. The High Uintas Gov. Mike Leavitt and the Republican congressional delegation have turned the Wilderness debate into a complete mess. "I am terribly disappointed in Mike Leavitt. Leavitt said he would not be tied up in the politics of divisiveness. But he has sat back and let it happen. “The whole Utah delegation ought to be embarrassed. They have caved-in to the simple-mindedness of the issue. They are the ultimate hypocrites,” he noted. Things being what they are, Carter, Pettis and the High Uintas Preservation Council have determined to work on another level. Their strategy: To work directly with the US Forest Service on a local level and to gradually bring local government into discussions that, for the most part, won't be the stuff of splashy headlines. Rather, they will look at ecological zones; the health of native species, rather than those introduced by man; sustaining a healthy environment; and the real economics of pre- Preservation Council, born last October, will serving nature. concentrate more on ecology and the environment and less on labels and designations. "We are at a time when we should be looking at deeper issues. Should we have "We can make a difference,” Carter maintains. "We have stopped some timber sales. We are going to be looking at grazing and tory. But like a bear in springtime, the UWA wilderness, or not, is the superficial issue. We should get past that," Carter argues. But until the BLM Wilderness debate or war - is settled, public discussions on making sure the Mt. Watson area remains toadless. And that's all we can do until the Utah delegation wakes up or the people of Utah gain some ecological literacy and make that known at the ballot box." Carter, Pettis and their colleagues have been down this road before, albeit in a climate not as politically harsh. In 1979, UWA proposed a 659,000-acre federal Wilderness area for the High Uintas. The Forest Service responded with a recommendation for a 511,000-acre Wilderness. Utah's congressional representatives were persuaded to introduce a wilderness bill in 1984, setting aside 460,000 acres in Wilderness in the High Uintas. It passed. 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