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Show ?? iowitoe ty the beautiful, friendly Escalante-BouldCountry. To visit er Come fr&.n Bryce Canyon Junction on a good road, U54, to Escalante. The road continues to Boulder, most of the way. hard-surfac- ed trut the If you can historic dirt roads, we invite you to visit the where eighty years ago 40 , pioneer wdgons were driven down a narrow slit in the Waterpocket Fold. You can descend through the Hole to the shore of lake Powell, or climb the Sandrock Fold for a fine view of the lake. k, a iC. f:;: J for., . : ij - . .t To the south you will see the escarpment of the Kaiparowitz Mountain. You will Plateau, called locally the Fifty-mi- 's have a fairly close view of Navaio Mountain. You will learn where the recreation area with facilities i to be built. On your way back to town, stop at the unique Devil's Garden and take pictures. boat-launchin- g "1 o If you have time and energy for hiking, we suggest that you explore some of the redrock canyons tributary to the Escalante River. Coyote Gulch has four fine natural bridges and arches. IM'IUK . S' ' v' v.?v A. '&.v' 'V. TV the world. '' ' v.. 1,000-foot-dee- ,T . t? ' Highway 54 to Boulder is one of the most scenic roads in You may want to stop at the recreation area in Calf Creek and perhaps take the trail to the lovely lower Fads. Of you may choose to reach Boulder via the mountain road over Hell's Backbone, where a narrow bridge separates p two gorges. V I': ' s' c. WWWKIM..; V i, - ,Z'$ , .f', ' - From Boulder you can take the mountain road to U24 along which you will find vantage points from which you can n see into the lower Country, across the colorful Circle. Cliffs to the distant Henry Mountains. A little farther along the way you can see into the Capitol Reef canyons. Or yog may want to reach the Henry Mountains and Highway U95 by driving east from Boulder through Crete Cliffs, ; 4 i f down Burr Trail on the Waterpocket Fold, thence on to the Bullfrog Recreation Area or Lake Powell. You may not see ad the sights in one visit. PLEASE KEEP COMING I We Want to Share Not Hoard WILL YOU HELP US? Through a presidential decree issued without warning on January 9, 1 969, we are faced with the loss of 2 1 5,056 acres of our range lands that were added to the Capitol Reef National Monument. According to Bureau of Land Management figures, this will nullify 62 grazing'permits. It wiH also prohibit the develop, merit of reserves of oil found and reported by the Utah Geological Survey after careful study covering two years' work to be as much os 500 mil'ion barrels of oil. The report also shows a number of potentially productive uranium prospects, and much cool. 1 Jit County records show eleven thousand oil and mineral claims. These and the cattle ranges will all be lost so that Capitol Reef Notional Monument, slated to become a park, can have a buffer zone and forty miles of the sandrock Waterpocket Fold can be "protected." It cannot survive without use of the public ranges for grazing to supplement the feed grown on the The basic economy of this region is founded on cattle-roismfarms and ranches. The pioneers settled this country primarily because of the ranges. Nowadays permits to use the range are issued by the Bureau of Land Man agement and the Forest Service. Unless the stockman has inherited his permit, he must buy it from a former user. Then he must pay on a monthly basis for each ani mat grazed. He must show that he has farmland to produce supplemental feed and must conform to other rigid regulations. Stockmen recognize that the ranges must be preserved and improved They help to pay for reseeding projects. Loss of the ranges will mean ruin of the ranches, loss in value of all farm property, loss of population in the towns. MUST WE ALSO HAVE A WILDERNESS? Not content with the "land grab" connected with the enlargement of Capitol Reef Monument by six times, the Protectionists of the Wasatch Mountain Club and the Sierra Club are proposing an even larger Wilderness Area. Their map shows that they would take all Boulder ranges spared by the new Capitol Reef and much of the grazing lands of Escalante stockmen. It would even include the Boulder ranches. It would prohibit the building of new roods. Only frails are allowed in Wilderness Areas, or for that matter in the newer National Parks. Witness Canyonlands and Capitol Reef. These Protectionists ore totally unrealistic, unjust, and ruthless. They would kill the economy of a country to gratify their passion for exclusive use of territory thet has scenic values. THEY WANT SINGLE USE. We wont Multiple Use of the public lands. By the way, where do they get their great political power? From writing letters? A Was jI. h Mountain Club officer boasted that he could "flood Washington once a week with a truckload of letters behalf of this Wilderness." If you believe as we do, will you pleose write a few letters yourself, or use other meant of helping us? WRITE ESCALANTE CHAMBER OP COMMERCE, ESCALANTE, UTAH. h rtet vat . |