Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Ms. Moore. I appreciate this opportunity to testify in favor of the wilderness legislation, Senator McClure and Senator Symms. My testimony favors a bill allowing Idaho to be the largest wilder I specifically support wilderness for Deadwood and Scott Mountains, South Boise and Yuba River as wilderness areas. I feel that allowing roads to be built for continuing logging and mining purposes will realize a short-lived benefit and destroy a fragile environment and continue to lessen the natural habitat for the big game herds and our salmon runs. I am a native Idahoan, but I will choose to continue working at my profession and continue living in Idaho due to the outdoor life that it offers. I enjoy hiking, photography and spend a great deal of time with our horses, riding, packing and big game hunting. Idaho truly offers awesome, majestic beauty as manifested by my skinned elbow. I couldn't walk-lead my horse and look at the awe some sight this weekend and continue to walk down the trail and I can't do all three things at the same time. But at any rate, you just don't see this sort of thing offered to the public in other States. Our goals really must include an obliga tion to preserve this natural pristine beauty. I would like to tell you that I really support the soft issue lan all of guage in your legislation. I want you to carefully consider 6.5 million remaining of the urge percent that at least 50 that and acres of roadless forest land be protected by your upcoming legisla tion. urge that the Idaho wilderness bill really be presented on its to any other wilderness bills of any other own rather than tie ness system in the lower 48 States. it, it I States. I And in closing comments, would like to stress that we can never add to what's been created for us. However, it's truly our re sponsibility to preserve, as a part of our heritage, and for our future generations. Thank you very much.