Statement:
BUREAU BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ms. Jacobsen. Thank you Senator McClure and Senator Symms. I feel privileged that you would allow us to speak having missed our turns. I am here today representing the Owyhee County Farm Bureau Board of Directors. It is indeed your hearing, and is coinciding beautiful with out grain harvest, so you are missing quite a few people from testifying today. If I may read their statement and mine: It says, the Owyhee Farm Bureau opposes any additional wilderness areas. We favor a multiple use concept where all resources are used to their best ad 529 vantage. Mother Nature left to herself will alter the resources as time lapses, and these changes will not always be better or worse due to fire, erosion, et cetera. Therefore, through multiple use, men can benefit from nature, and nature may benefit from man as the best use is made from each resource. Our children will be much more pleased with the natural re source left in its condition rather than when allowed to go to ruin. Please allow proper use and care of our natural resources, and do not put them away without a care to fend for themselves. Thank you for your time and attention.
"Jacobsen, Rayola", 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-jacobsen-rayola.html