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Show Rollo-Glyphics iu.ii. For those who may not be aware of it the National Park Service is in t he process of establishing "wilderness" designation for over 75 percent of Cedar Breaks National Monument It's the same hassle that we underwent in regards to Zion Canyon National Park where the final recommendation was that over 90 percent of that vast area of land be so designated, after extensive "study" and public "input " I have a feeling that the public "input" will be considered at Cedar Breaks just about as much as it was at Zion-not at all If you discuss the matter with a Parks official they will tell you that they have been charged by "congress" to review and determine what part of the particular park area should be classified as "wilderness " Who's going to disagree with that? No one. But the point is that the "Primevial character, and outstanding geological features of scientific and scenic value" have already been identified and preserved-that's why it was designed a National Monument in the first place. The Park Service has already eliminated the in-park facilities at Cedar Breaks, That was handled rather smoothly and without much public fuss. It was a case of reaction after the fact and Zion Park took the brunt of the public sentiment regarding that action National Monument or "wilderness", it seems absurd to belabor the point, but why the added emphasis, I guess I'll never understand Do you? So they've been charged. So what. What I can't understand is just how much more control can the government have than a , designated National Park or National Monument, If I understand un-derstand correctly the Park Service has complete jurisdiction jurisdic-tion control over the Parks and Monuments to begin with. The further designation of "wilderness" seems absolutely ridiculous to me Let me expound on that a little further. In the description of the proposed action by the Park Service-which would designate the major portion of the Park to "wilderness" they state that "the proposed wildxerness area is not a large land mass; it is nevertheless very compact, has retained its primevial character, and contains outstanding geological features of scientific and scenic values." While I'm on the subject of government it seems apparent that as inauguration day approaches ap-proaches in our nation's capitol the political pundits and prognostics tors are having a field day trying to determine what direction (or directions) will be taken by the incoming administration The wildly divergent (and altogether confusing) predictions predic-tions being made by these self-avowed self-avowed experts makes one fact "perfectly clear:" absolutely no one, at this moment, can tell with any degree of certainty what is going to happen after January 20, Only time will give us the answers, and hopefully time will be on the side of the public to react to proposed legislation that the new administration may offer. We plan to respond and hope that you do too! |