Idaho Wilderness Hearings

Statement:

Mr. Zimmer. Senator McClure, I'm from Moscow, Idaho, not Orofino as it says in the agenda. As a taxpayer and business person in the State of Idaho, I would like to say that on an economic basis I object to proposed roadbuildings in certain areas, specifically the Jersey Jack, Mallard Creek area having seen a map of proposed roads and the network of those primary roads built at huge taxpayer expense or as has been mentioned before basically a $4Vfe million deficit when the timber is harvested. Along with that proposal for the White Water River Road being widened and expanded, I have known that road to deliver Cadillacs down to the Salmon River as it exists now and see really no reason for it to be expanded any more. As a citizen who uses wilderness and the great lands of Idaho from a study point of view, I support more wilderness in the State of Idaho as proposed by the Idaho Conservation Council and so on with the Endangered Wild Core and just wanted to say that I think the timber industry needs to better manage its own lands to utilize private lands that exist in better managing those lands and to create their resources from those existing lands rather than utilizing perhaps marginally producing lands that are currently under consideration. Thank you.