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ALERT oppose H.R. 652

Ed A. Stevens

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This report is also available on the United website at:
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TO: United Four Wheel Drive Associations
FROM: Carla Boucher
DATE: February 21, 2003

WHAT: H.R. 652, the National Forest Ecosystem Protection Act, was
introduced by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ).

WHAT IT IS: H.R. 652 would:

1) Eliminate all commercial grazing on National Forests

2) Eliminate all recreation (except primitive recreation ie. hiking)
in areas adjacent to Wilderness Areas

3) Require the Forest Service to prepare an Environmental Assessment

a) for study for wilderness suitability for all primitive lands
extending from existing designated Wilderness Areas
b) to discuss ecological advantage of closing all "unimproved roads"
in the study area

4) Authorize appropriations to:

a) spend $5 million to purchase private property within designated
Wilderness Areas in the West
b) spend $100 million to purchase private property within primitive
areas extending from existing designated Wilderness areas in the East

5) Close all unimproved, unmapped, and non-system roads in primitive
areas extending from existing designated Wilderness areas.

6) A list of all the areas affected by the bill appear below


WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT: Write to both of the two Committees to
whom the bill has been referred and ask them to take no action on the
bill (this kills the bill).


House Committee on Agriculture
Chairman Bob Goodlatte

1301 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-2171
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]


House Committee on Resources

Chairman Richard Pombo

1324 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D. C. 20515-6201
(202) 225-2761
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov


The Ecosystem Protection Areas, and the wilderness area forming the
their core, are as follows:

(1) ALABAMA: Sipsey.

(2) ALASKA: Misty Fiords.

(3) ARIZONA:

(A) Mazatzal.
(B) Blue Range (also in New Mexico), including the Blue Range Primitive Area.
(C) Chiricahua.

(4) ARKANSAS:

(A) Hurricane Creek.
(B) Upper Kiamichi (also in Oklahoma).

(5) CALIFORNIA:

(A) High Sierra, including John Muir, Ansel Adams, Golden Trout,
Monarch, Dinkey Lakes, South Sierra, Dome Land, Hoover and Emigrant.
(B) Trinity Alps.

(6) COLORADO:

(A) Weminuche.
(B) West Elk.
(C) South San Juan.

(7) FLORIDA:

(A) Big Gum Swamp.
(B) Bradwell Bay.

(8) GEORGIA:

(A) Cohutta (also in Tennessee).
(B) Southern Nantahala (also in North Carolina).

(9) IDAHO:

(A) Central Idaho Massif, including Frank Church-River of No Return,
Selway-Bitterroot (also in Montana), and Gospel Hump.
(B) Hells Canyon (also in Oregon).

(10) INDIANA: Charles C. Deam.

(11) KENTUCKY: Clifty.

(12) MAINE: Caribou-Speckled Mountain.

(13) MICHIGAN: Sylvania.

(14) MINNESOTA: Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

(15) MISSOURI: Irish.

(16) MONTANA:

(A) Montana Rockies, including Bob Marshal, Great Bear, and Scapegoat.
(B) Central Idaho Massif, including Selway-Bitterroot (also in Idaho).
(C) Yellowstone, including Lee Metcalf and Absaroka-Beartooth (also
in Wyoming).

(17) NEVADA: Arc Dome.

(18) NEW HAMPSHIRE:

(A) Pemiwegasset.
(B) Presidential Range-Dry River.
(C) Sandwich Range.

(19) NEW MEXICO:

(A) Gila including Gila and Aldo Leopold.
(B) Blue Range (also in Arizona).

(20) NORTH CAROLINA:

(A) Citico Creek (also in Tennessee), including Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock.
(B) Southern Nantahala (also in Georgia).

(21) OKLAHOMA: Upper Kiamichi (also in Arkansas).

(22) OREGON: Hells Canyon, including Hells Canyon (also in Idaho) and
Eagle Cap.

(23) PENNSYLVANIA: Hickory Creek.

(24) SOUTH DAKOTA: Black Elk.

(25) TENNESSEE:

(A) Cohutta including Big Frog (also in Georgia).

(B) Citico Creek including Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock (also in North Carolina).

(26) TEXAS:

(A) Upland Island.
(B) Indian Mounds.

(27) UTAH: High Uintas.

(28) VERMONT:

(A) Breadloaf.
(B) Lyle Brook.

(29) VIRGINIA: Mountain Lake (also in West Virginia).

(30) WASHINGTON: North Cascades including Glacier Peak, Pasayten,
Lake Chelan-Sawtooth, Mt. Baker, and Noisy Diobsud.

(31) WEST VIRGINIA:

(A) Cranberry.
(B) Mountain Lake (also in Virginia).

(32) WISCONSIN: Headwaters.

(33) WYOMING:

(A) Yellowstone including Washakie, Teton, North Absaroka, Winegar
Hole, Jeddiah Smith, Absaroka-Beartooth (also in Montana) and Lee
Metcalf (wholly in Montana).

(B) Wind River including Bridger, Fitzpatrick and Popo Ag


--
John Stewart
Director, Environmental Affairs, UFWDA, http://www.ufwda.org
Recreation Access and Conservation Editor, http://www.4x4wire.com

A fundamental law of public land access is:

Increased habitat designation for threatened and endangered species
is directly proportional to loss of access to public lands.
 
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