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Show Bill holds Wilderness Study Meeting The Bureau of Land Management's draft procedures for conducting a wilderness study of the public lands as mandated by Congress will be critiqued by a special Utah panel. The 11-member panel will meet May 19 at 8 a.m. in the BLM Utah State Office conference room, 1408 University Club Building, 136 East South Temple, Salt Lake City. Paul L. Howard, BLM state director for Utah, said the meeting will be open to the public but the discussion will be primarily among panel members. Public meeting previously have been conducted in Salt Lake City, Moab and Cedar City. Members of the panel include Paul Rattle, Moab, representing mineral interests: in-terests: Dick Carter, Salt Lake City, Wilderness Society; Richard Leigh, Cedar City, stockman; Dorde Woodruff, Salt Lake City, off -road-vehicle users; Calvin Black, Blanding, county officials; Paul Parker, Salt Lake City, state government; Steve Wiseman, Salt Lake City, sportsman; Prof. Richard Toth, Logan, landscape architects and environmental en-vironmental planners; Roberta Fullerton, Aurora, Colorado, Outdoors Unlimited; D. B. Gale Dick and Jim Catlin, Salt Lake City, environmentalists. The public has been invited in-vited to send their comments on the Bureau's draft wilderness procedures to the , Bureau of Land Management Director (370), Washington, D. . C. 20240. Recommendations and comments of the panel also will be submitted to the BLM national director for development of final procedures. Once the wilderness inventory in-ventory procedures are developed, bureau personnel per-sonnel will launch an inventory in-ventory process with extensive ex-tensive public participation. Areas identified during this inventory as not having wilderness characteristics will be dropped from further study and returned to multiple use management. Those found to have potential for wilderness designation will become study areas and will be recommended to Congress as either unsuitable or suitable for inclusion in the nation's wilderness system. Final wilderness determination deter-mination will be made by the Congress, Mr. Howard noted, upon the BLM's recommendation. During the study period, he emphasized, "most multiple use activities can continue on the public land as long as the activities do not impact any wilderness I potential of the area." j |