Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Mr. Aspelund. Senator McClure, my name is Dale Aspelund. First, just so I can be brief, I would like to state for the record that core. I oppose hard re that you gave today, al though that's the first time I heard it described that way. The issue that we are here today to discuss has possibly been misrepresented. It has been portrayed as: How much more wilder ness can Idaho afford? God created this wilderness. And it may be forever lost after this wilderness bill has been legislated. The question is, and always has been, not how much more forests in Idaho but how much less wilderness in Idaho? I personally wish to enter into the record that I support wilder ness designation for the Payette Crest, Steel Mountain, and White Cloud-Boulder Mountains and that the White Cloud-Boulder Moun tains be given wilderness protection with a nonmining clause. I also entered into the record, with 15 copies, Senator, two let ters, one from a Mr. George Burger, Jr., and one from a Mr. Alan Albrecht, who wished to support protection of the Idaho wilderness and wilderness roadless lands, and were unable to be here today. I support the Idaho endangered wilderness lease language, even under the definition Thank you.