Statement:

Mr. Parsons. Mr. McClure, ladies and gentleman, I'm awful interested in the Idaho wilderness areas concerning every aspect. My main concern is the Foehl's Creek drainage, north and just a little bit west of the Mallard-Larkins Pioneer area. Speaking not as a hunter and an outdoorsman, I personally think it would be a shame to let this area be logged off. The fish and game department has in an aerial flight only sighted 75 known elk in the area. I've hiked and hunted the area for 10, 15 years now. And I know there's several more than that along with bear and cats. And the goats from the Mallard-Larkin—or Snow Peak and that general area range Foehl's Creek along the MallardLarkin Pioneer area. And I don't think we'll find much better elk breeding grounds. 371 What usually happens I've found with several reports and checking into a lot of reading and talking with people, that the elk generally leave an area when it's logged. And this area is highly susceptible to erosion. Most all these areas, when the timber does grow back, it comes into brush. And I think the elk would become like America's bald eagle mere extinction to let that go as logging. And steelhead and trout spawn Foehl's Creek annually as well as the North fork of the Clearwater River. This would be adversely affected by logging in that area. A few years ago this area was being considered for the RARE II Act because of its remoteness and single access road. This would have left only those existing roads with a 20-foot corridor for motorized vehicles. At that time, several logging companies stated that they had no intentions of harvesting the timber of Foehl's Creek Canyon or its drainages. The majority of the timber is hemlock, which is of little value compared to other timber. And it doesn't seem that it would be profitable to log hemlock with expenses as high as they are now.

Reference Link

"Parsons, Daniel R.", Idaho Wilderness Hearings, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL), University of Idaho Library, https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/wilderness-hearings/items/aug-16-1983-parsons-daniel-r.html