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Show Wilderness candidates study areas announced by Forest Supervisor Supervisor Alvin F. Wright of the Dixie National Forest has announced tentative recommendations re-commendations on. candidate areas for Wilderness study. Mr. Wright says the candidate areas were selected after analysis an-alysis of all public comments and after study, by a multi-disciplinary multi-disciplinary team, of available avail-able resource information and potential alternative uses on all the undeveloped areas. The areas tentaively selected select-ed for study on the Dixie National Na-tional Forest include Pine Val-ley Val-ley Mountains and Ashdown Gorge, containing 49,700 acres of undeveloped area. '? In addition to those areas which have Wilderness potential, po-tential, there are 17 areas on the Dixie National Forest which merit special manage ment and, in some instances, special classification other than Wilderness. These areas contain a total of 215,000 acres and include outstanding geologic, archeologic, or senic features. Also included is a new designation, Back Country. Coun-try. The Ranger District Multiple Mul-tiple Use Management Plan identifies such Back Country areas and provides for management man-agement that emphasizes the present undeveloped nature of the terrain, while allowing some development and management. man-agement. Anyone wishing to comment com-ment on the tentative candidate candi-date selections, or the alternatives alter-natives for any of the other identified undeveloped areas, may do so in writing to the Forest Supervisor or by inter- view before June 10, shortly after which his tentative recommendations re-commendations will be forwarded for-warded to Regional Forester Vern Hamre. Mr. Hamre will forward a consolidated Regional report to the Chief of the Forest Service Ser-vice by June 30. The Chief will publish a tentative list of his selections before December 31, 1972. After a period of time for public response on the National Na-tional scale, the Chief will announce an-nounce his final list some time in the spring of 1973. While one of the objectives of the undeveloped area inventory in-ventory is to identify, in the initial phase, . most of the areas which, should be studied studi-ed for possible inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation Pre-servation System, there is full recognition that the multiple mul-tiple use plannig process will continue to present opportunities opportun-ities for consideration of future fut-ure Wilderness alternatives for any qualifying area. The objective of identifying identify-ing new areas to study for possible Wilderness classification classifica-tion is to aflford prompt recognition re-cognition and management to protect their Wilderness values val-ues while other resource use and development of the areas not selected for consideration can proceed as needed. The current review is part of the Forest Service continuing multiple use plannig process. |