Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Mr. Crawford. Thank you, Senator. I'm Don Crawford from Moscow, Idaho. And I have included the testimony of three other Moscow citizens who could not attend today because of having to work. I'd like to include those in the record, if I may. 550 I am an Idahoan who strongly supports more wil- derness for this State, especially north of the Clearwater River where not 1 single acre of designated wilderness currently exists north of the Clearwater River. Statewide I support the Endangered Wilderness Core as proposed by the Idaho conservation groups. And in the northern part of the State specifically, I support designation of wilderness for Mallard- Larkins, at least 2,000 acres and not the cut in half designated wil- derness as proposed by the timber industry. I support a Great Burn wilderness which would include the RARE n recommended acres, plus the entire Kelly Creek-Cayuse Creek drainage, which has been spoken of often already. In addi- tion, I support the RARE II wilderness recommendations for Moose Mountain. Further north I support the wilderness recommendation for Grandmother Mountain east of Clarkia. This is an area that is half BLM Forest Service acreage. And, of course, I support a wilderness for the Selkirks, the Long Canyons, for the Salmo-Priest area and for Scotchman's Peak. My detailed reasons for support are in my written testimony. Speaking of release, I oppose hard release language. If any non- roaded—nonwilderness areas remain 20 years from now, there's probably going to have to be a great reason for it. And we should not remove the possibility of further wilderness consideration for those areas if they by chance still exist 20 years from now.