Local Issue; 3; The Wilderness Controversy

this is probably a familiar sight to most the pleasure of living in modern society that pressure and possible time schedule at bodegas even a few islands of tranquility in such a scene if you're only to enter the frustrations of others rob diamond tester always needs an escape and each person finds his own really isn't as daily grind of his own way has this particular person finds his escape and weekend backpacking trips in the wilderness and comedy various accompanied by his two sons you spent many an eye camping out under conditions which come

fairly close to those experienced by early trappers and pioneers and i think for a short time in these areas with his family but he finds what is at least for him the perfect escape from the turmoil in place in the city this data person feels a need for a complete collection of trappings of our technology you guys are you the nation of spirit by returning to an environment and family ties ma said to innocent those years to the united states today and family their numbers are increasing above and beyond what would be expected with the population boomed the forest service in the early twenties began setting aside area specifically for this type of recreation designated at that time as primitive areas they were closed to all forms of development exploitation a motorized transport this system is now grown to well over fourteen million acres opposition to this system was far from the first with mining lobbying and raising interest being the leaders in the opposing forces in nineteen fifty six when the

wilderness advocates decided that legislation related to increase the total area and create a permanent system the opposition boiled over into a bitter controversy which has lasted for eight years and may last for quite a few more during the following program we will look at the issues behind this trouble and talked to some of the people involved the national educational television network presents local issue a seven part series of regional documentaries produced by affiliated stations of an et this week the wilderness controversy an examination of the encounter between idealists and the practical mines produced by k n o m e television in albuquerque new mexico or

this land as it was before western men said put upon this continent and one of the pieces of legislation that has been put before congress to as a wilderness in contrast to those areas where managers were to dominate the landscape i recognized as an area where they are and it's community of wise gardens them or why man where man himself is a visitor who does not remain be more specific under present for service regulations no one reason or commercial purposes carry out any mining or grazing operation to integrate or use any type of motorized vehicle in such an area wilderness areas include all of the wide range of sizes instead of the selway bitterroot areas located in western montana and as the largest be created so far originally conservationist one of the selway to include about one million eight hundred

thousand acres but opposition by economic interests on the final total to around one million two hundred range we were one such areas that is a wilderness which was the first one for service in nineteen twenty four located in southern human by the ancestors of the southwestern indiana these indians of all american indians for that matter and established a certain harmonic relationship with a wilderness environment during their centuries of roaming the land or the white men a ride and then with the rival for the comments

by new sources was established one did not accept the discovery to make sure it was something to be fought against we saw a lot of resources actually we do in the last fifty years resources quite a change in attitude they must be efficiently and carefully managed and the industry's consequently an extensive wilderness system prostitutes resources finley and tom it's all of the new

mexico mining association adds these boys aren't really have support from people of multiple views of the public plan however does not mean that we are opposed to the world and the reservation at all other you have to write the recognize button relation to other necessary and desirable uses of the land was eventually wilderness in the us have been well if your lover diligent efforts of the us forest service and that it would be rather difficult to find an organization that built its job of administering the land under its jurisdiction maurizio then does the us forest service simply advocates of

wilderness felt the statutory rather than administrative establishment of protection for wilderness when needed a difference of opinion between wilderness advocates and others arose when they decided that in addition to what the wilderness areas already established one of the forest service that other vast areas should be set aside for this one purpose and that all other existing legal rights of other uses of the public plans such as logging mining and recreation give us a completely wiped out it has heh heh heh heh

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be carried out on wilderness lands know logging operations at anytime on what i mean while most land selected as wilderness areas have little usable timber because of mountainous terrain and resulting transport there are some tracks of timber in the pacific northwest where the system which lebron and could use to then consequently the timber companies in the northwest had done considerable lengths to fight the expansion of wilderness in that area lumber companies

what looked like a very extensive system of latino it would have helped open up areas previously unassailable by motorized transport it is the opposition that america depends upon the animal do not only for business like for recreation as well unless it is unrealistic to lockup wilderness areas against this type of transport question about their recreation and how the wild lands but in the overall picture is probably an obvious problem facing the wilderness system today he's using something vile about the whitest popularity among modern americans can be found and wild style which is a true wilderness recreation and this particular dance around a grocery store those cafeterias laundromats restrooms and a long list of other services of them provided by our service can set a campground tenants can live in the great outdoors without making too many of the usual size

according to the race and outdoor recreation resources review commission report does this type of gathering and the associated activity a major share of all outdoor recreation the thing that a lot of all that they may change the fact that this campaign was more profit was realized long before the recreation report was released consequently industries' near lansing often been heard to wonder aloud why the money and land being tied up in wilderness could not be better used to provide more highly developed easily accessible campground down here until today

states the peak is bleak since background knowledge of in areas considered to lead to a richer

experience lectures about the local wonders await the uninformed every turn later in the afternoon this family will join one of the nature might say put on by the national park service immediately they all you're hearing from one thousand because we can treat colic your called the power of america many people feel like three inches them there one of the people with the most everyone who has visited one of the larger national parks will be familiar with these

jobs aside the writing exercise also gives the hiker again the retail side florida and one of the people in the state i knew on our lead male oriented thing that theyre all part of when i first came up here i thought they were there right now that i don't belong there in our mind they can do that would be the end of it this is because i live in an area that now very good

it's a day of such activities satisfying to most campers surveys have shown the answer to be fair those outsiders majority who would just as soon get completely away from the grocery store cafeteria laundromat circle of existence these were innocent those years of data being locked into mass entertainment the late dr all as jane year one of the leading advocates of

wilderness legislation made this statement we make men guided him as everybody do the same thing in the same way or so we have diversity people have a choice we have a few places where individuals themselves a pound this drive of individuality is expressed by some in a desire to get muscle against the granite of awareness month and ron this trial for individuality as expressed

by others by wild rivers providing the needed feeling of self reliance as a growing demand remaining wild rivers be set aside much the same as they are in the army engineers america however weddings for a practical reason i'm in

favor of wilderness but not so much to be set aside for so few this creates a paradox of sorts to descend on these lands then the pristine conditions would like from behind every tree this may happen anyway with the continued increase in population and the possibility looms in the future the wilderness recreational have to be russian carefully already officials of maine warning statements indicating national parks may have to establish a system of reservations in advance to alleviate impossibly crowded conditions the pip pip pip overcrowding facing american future

recreation opponents of charter this eligibility to people to want so much lab for recreation which is quite specialized but now they owe the wilderness is available only to the privileged you saying commonly heard he one man who doesn't fit into this picture is elliot parker he's been a game warden for stranger conservationists in mexico since the turn of the century parker is well into his seventies is not particularly well to do and it is joy and twenty two extended trailer rise in rocky mountains there

i believe my feelings about the wormy fruit pretty well with that in one of my point that a perception lot of people who like they said really if i am who care of the amount of what might be the year of heard there got here of song the word jim ring of year he's fielded gnome who never seek similar worries that police she it's all in there who gets know three or four roxanne would then temple video below weren't as broad as smith is a chance to walk with god until recent years the world has controversy centered primarily between the wilderness purists and economic interests which felt the system was a threat to their livelihood the nation's attention is now turning to the role which wild lands must weigh in the future recreation picture in this nation

well they need to be opened up what national parks and forests or build overflowing with a conventional cavernous motorized transport oh one man who has definite opinions about the future the wilderness in america is joe's approach that are gradually now resides in tucson arizona has written a great deal about wilderness in this nation and the effect it has had in shaping the society we live in today i think my feelings about the wilderness in the last part of my book if you don't mind i think i would like to read the wilderness and the idea of the wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit here in the united states many early primaries realize had been miraculously preserved until the time when

civilization could appreciate the richness and variety of an actual war which had disappeared on notice and little by little from europe america was a dream something long putt which had suddenly become a reality it was called the great point for many of its early stages had been ripped out and thrown away the desire to experience that reality rather than to destroy hutu are shorter some of the best to overcome that most of the cotton is no longer a wilderness is no cause for regret but it is a cause for congratulations that the four centuries and more which a person's columbus set sail not belong in the permit me and take over the whole of completely of a long ago took over your and that factors responsible for an

important part of the difference would still exists virtually as well as physically between the old world and the new the five years solomon auden poem for whatever the americans no longer exists but here's the english naturalist james fisher realized with surprise the lines are can still boast the spanish grand juror richness of the variety which european can hardly imagine until you see these are things that other nations can never recover should we lose we could not recover money the generational it may very well be that which will make the irrevocable decision whether or not america will continue to be for centuries to come the way great nations which have the foresight to preserve an important part of the terror if we do not measure then we show a diminished or just that much unique privilege of being

an american within the past two months the house of representatives passed hr ninety seven you know it was a career ending wilderness legislation the senate had already passed its version of the bill and the differences will work out a joint committee before being sent to the president when the bill became on september the third the principle effect of legislation will be to solidify the president wilderness areas under law rather than under administrative regulations actually there will be a little increase in total area what the bill has done is to say that those areas which are now the wilderness about nine and a half million acres are indeed wilderness areas those areas classified as primitive lands about six and a half million who remained so unless congress acts within the next few years to reclassify them as wilderness areas of forest service had been doing the same thing only with much less hullabaloo for the past two decades neither side is extremely satisfied with this compromise bill

as is the case in most compromises mining logging grazing and others affected economically by the legislation see in even this watered down version an extension of federal control and a waste of valuable resources on the other hand wilderness advocates steel that the legislation is perhaps worse than no bill at all congress has shown itself to be quite sensitive industry lobbyists but when it comes to wilderness matters and as has been pointed out that congress must act sooner please don't leave areas are to be included in the wilderness system and what about the future of the population expose in pushing me on new innovations in transportation there will certainly be efforts to open these areas to highly developed recreation resource exploitation the present legislation is only a holding action and what if in the future the increase in creature comforts americans began a trend away from the wild west show and the experience to be received within the boundaries then the last wild acres will drop from sight but the first like leisure from the

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