Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Mr. Littlefield. Thank you, Senator. I am Brad Littlefield. I'm a resident of Moyie Springs. I work for Louisiana Pacific Corp., and I also have a cattle ranch. I'm speaking here for myself and on behalf of my wife today. I'm a fourth generation Idahoan, and my wife is a third generation. When the Littlefield and the Moon families first came to north Idaho, there were some fires in the Long Canyon area which burned portions of them. And on the inspection of those areas last week, it looked to me like it had recovered fairly well. My concern in this matter of some of these areas was that this timber is very mature, it's dying. If it is not harvested properly, it will be allowed to burn up. And what I'm afraid of is in the future when my grandchildren are here to view these kinds of things that all they're going to see is a black old scarred canyon. And I don't think that we should allow a lot of these things—or a lot of the timber to be wasted in those areas. I think we have the technology to minimize the effects of the logging. I just don't think it should be wasted. Thank you.