Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Ms. Carriveau. Good afternoon. My name is Lori Carriveau. I would like to enter my written testimony into the record. I support the endangered wilderness core as outlined in my testimony and by the ICL. And I will support the full conservation, sportsmens' pro posal when it is released in October. Wilderness is multiuse area. Logging, mining, drilling are single use. There are people who come into our State and exploit our re sources and leave, while we who choose to live here are going to spend the rest of our lives in this area. I'm against my tax dollars supporting the timber industry for road subsidies. What's the sense in destroying wilderness areas and paying to have it done? I'm against hard release legislation and I would like to see 50 percent of remaining roadless forest area preserved. I have moved to Boise, Idaho, from Minnesota. My family came out here almost every summer on camping trips. My mother and father would pile five kids into the car and drive all the way out here to enjoy the wilderness and I knew I wanted to make it my home as soon as my dad would let me move out of the house. So now I have moved to Idaho and I teach handicapped children. I have heard people say that wilderness is unaccessible to handi capped children and this is a fallacy. I have brought my kids up into the wilderness areas and I have been a witness to other slides of other people who have done the same thing, and nothing can re place the joy on their faces and their high self-esteem from coming from a school background where they're always the underdog and going to a wilderness where they can feel on top of the world. It's an experience and joy that I always cherish every trip. I would like to see it preserved for more trips and for future Idahoans. Tom Whitaker is a coordinator of the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Recreation Group, nicknamed the HOGS and he is spending the summer in England and can't be here. He has a physical handicap where he lost a leg in an auto accident and he takes physically handicapped adults Whitewater rafting, cross-coun try skiing. They camp in the snow and they have so much fun there that it's too bad that people don't think that the handicapped