Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Ms. Lombardi. Thank you for coming. My training is as a wildlife biologist and as a writer. And I'd like to say first of all, I, like a couple of other people mentioned I object to the appropriation of the term 'multiple use' by commercial concerns, implying that only where logging, mining, or ranching is practiced for profit is multiple use in effect. These three activities are only a minute sample of available uses of our public lands. Other activities includes rafting, hiking, climbing, canoeing, photography, skiing, camping, birdwatching, botanizing, hunting, pine-cone collecting, looking for gems, arrowheads, or pictographs, stargazing, berrypicking, and a million other activities are ignored, or lumped together and ignored.