Thoughts on wilderness, recreation management
Phil Hough | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 2 months AGO
Stan Myers raised a number of interesting questions in his letter about the Scotchman Peaks. (Daily Bee, Nov. 1) Some of these questions are more about recreational or wildlife management than wilderness. I’d like to offer some clarity on these different management themes as well as where the roadless and proposed wilderness boundaries lie.
In the Scotchman Peaks roadless area, there are no current or former roads. A few hundred acres of the proposed Scotchman Peaks wilderness lies outside the Scotchman Peaks roadlless area and does contain a small amount of roads, long ago abandoned. These roads are reverting to their natural state by natural process. They are are not being mechanically restored. Any use of excavators is outside the boundaries of both the road less and recommended wilderness areas.
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