Statement:
Ms. Kathryn Harnden. Thank you, Senator McClure. Can you hear me? Agriculture is Idaho's No. 1 indus try; tourism is Idaho's No. 2 industry. Protection and conservation of Idaho's wilderness areas will pro tect critical watershed for the agricultural industry and will pro mote the tourism industry. Timber harvesting promotes soil ero sion and historic watershed. It also decreases tourism because who wants to look at bare mountains. Furthermore, I don't believe that taxpayers should be subsidizing the tourism industry by paying the cost of building logging roads and administering the national forests. Idaho's current designated wilderness areas are too small for the vast numbers of people visiting them. Campsites and many trails in the Sawtooth Wilderness Area are already being closed because of overuse. For the agricultural and tourism industries, you must save our wilderness areas. We don't need to create them; they're already there. I support the Endangered Idaho Wilderness Core and hope all Idaho's wilderness will remain wilderness. Thank you.
"Harnden, Kathryn H.", Idaho Wilderness Hearings, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL), University of Idaho Library, https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/wilderness-hearings/items/aug-09-1983-harnden-kathryn-h.html