Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

SENATE ENERGY AND NATURAL BOISE IDAHO Senator McClure I C.W. am It is nothing These hearings Pomeroy. is costly to take. Panel, and is taking one of us AT THE IDAHO WILDERNESS HEARINGS, RESOURCES COMMITTEE, AUGUST 9, 1983, off time is I why is our Tourism am biggest second The value of the to much come Every me. testify and it from work, but you are about to under here. every year towards growing to a day take decisions which compared to the That from our jobs anddffficult to us very mean industry largest, the for which tourist dollars in the state and is farming. touches everybody Idaho in the state. you decide upon What rethink the 6.5 long term economic the million acres of roadless land, value of having tourists to the land year after year spending their fishing, hunting, resource; land prime best have to have we hiking, climbing. boating, don't we left build it. untouched biggest Wilderness and money state on This gas, food, houses, is a renewable Please leave what so our state will in the Continental return be little the United States. I urge you not to succumb to the the mining and timber industry. gone and garbage what years to I it is strewn about, was. roads in Let's and work together your from a game are pristine country is to protect our state for come . urge you to language you allow pressure area they are there forever, soon the fish and roadless half Once short-term : protect these special places, with soft release 393 1) the White 2) Sawtooth Clouds-Boulder Completion (including Tenmile south Boise- Yuba River, of the 3) Mountains (with The Big Lost River Range no-raining clause) a East and West, Mountains. Smoky (including Borah Peak, Pahsimeroi and King Mountain) and the The Pioneers 5) the Northern Lemhis and Diamond Peak, Timber, Park Creek, and Little 6) The Long Canyon-Selkirk 7) The Mallard-Larkins area 8) the Salmo-Priest 9) the Payette Crest Secesh Little 4) River, and Wood Timber River area including the Big drainages Crest of the Selkirk Mountains area (mountain (including caribou habitat) French Creek, Lick, CreekNeedles. Thank you. C. Box W. Poraeroy 1765 Ketchum ID 83340 32-426 0 84 26 . 394