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Wildlife: An American Ideal & Her Values: Continued: #2

COLD-HEARTED CONTEMPT:

"Swift Creek Roadless Area" is described in one Draft Environmental Impact Statement as "Challenging opportunities are nonexistent and there are no special features." This is hogwash. For example, "Sleeping Child Roadless Area" is described in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, as "Challenging opportunities are rare." There are no special features. This is hogwash and an environmental lie. "Sleeping Child" has hot springs and much wildlife and virgin timber. Thousands of people each year use this area. The Forest Service also built a rush road into this National Forest Block area that qualified for Wilderness Status against the principles of RARE II and Senator Max Baucus knows this was illegal. The Forest Service did this to disqualify "Sleeping Child" from Wilderness Status. This is a Criminal Act by the Forest Service. Does it take Federal Marshals or the U.S. Army to stop the Forest Service from entering these wilderness areas and stealing America's Virgin Timber?

Tens of thousands of acres are stripped from steep mountain slopes by the Forest Service each year. The result is a 100% loss of the entire top soil which will take over 20,000 years to replace, if ever in human history. No trees will ever grow here again. The snow cap ceases to be shaded from the sun because the forest canopy is removed entirely. Western Rivers now flood each spring with black/brown soils and do not run clear during rains anymore. How much more insane can this get?

"Tolan Creek Roadless Area" is described in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, as "Challenging opportunities are nonexistent. Scores of Americans use these beautiful, breath taking areas every year. Why is the Forest Service against Americans using and enjoying these particular National Forests areas as wilderness? Since so many enjoy them, why doesn't the Forest Service respect the needs of the many to have these areas MAINTAINED as wilderness?

"Sportsmen" are better understood as simply "people who step into the outdoors." They keep hundreds of thousands of businesses active that pay large expenses to operate. Businesses benefit DIRECTLY from sports persons pursuits of Outdoor Recreation and big game in ever decreasing herds and fishes in ever dwindling streams; decreased daily because of U.S. Forest undisciplined timbering violations and practices, undisciplined grazing and road construction violations and practices, with undisciplined spraying and stream damaging violations and practices, with budgets that can't guarantee the protection of the public welfare and interests.

Case after case of photographic evidence shows forest molestation due to the undisciplined practices of the U.S. Forest Service. The United States initials (U.S.) is used as a cover-up for insideous outdoor timbering crimes and a policy to destroy all out National Forests. They are doing it. Each year, for the last 120 years, there is less forest equities that the American People can use.

The Department of Agriculture views our lands as nothing more than farm plots for timbering clients. National Forests do not belong to the logging industry. In this context, Agriculture has no business managing public recreational lands. The history of the Forest Service establishes the Forest Service is dedicated to cut it all.

WILDERNESS: TIMBER AND GRAZING. SPECIAL EXAMPLES:

Wilderness decreases daily, under Multiple Land Use methods employed also by the Bureau of Land Management. In this lays vast amounts of wastes and ultimately permanent alterations. It includes great disfigurement by rough-shod timbering, which includes clear cutting allowed to loot it, finally destroyed with wanton grazing. Replacing a hardwood forest with a single species pine is like replacing a multi-colored diamond with a lump of coal.

A LESSON IN OUTDOORS HISTORY:

Once your National Virgin Timberland individuality is lost, it's just a matter of time before the following events commence.

Colorado passed a "game damage bill called H.B. 1235." It was pushed into law, not supported by the average Colorado citizen, but rather by self-serving singular agricultural interests.
The way the stockmen did it was to first put into offices representatives that were stockmen themselves. These few stockmen attained the majority on special committees that would review this bill once it was introduced. A stockman-biased representative introduced it. Next, this bill didn't require that damage payments be paid out of the "General Fund." Understand the Public gets all license dollars, which are detoured, into the General Fund. Colorado is the main benefactor of hunting and fishing activities amounting to over $589,200,000.00 a year. This MONEY is raised through hunting and fishing only. This is where the greatest injustice ever connived against American outdoor history is in place.

The question is not that the sportsman has to pay, but to demand that he must pay and not the Public whose welfare is better served by WILDLIFE is exactly the point! In most Western States, there are general laws such as those provided for Colorado citizens. It says, (which Cattle and Sheepmen cared not to point out at the time) that under Colorado Law, all resident wildlife is the property of the State, for use and benefit of all people. Colorado Law 1973. Burn this sentiment into your hearts and minds and remember it!

This is probably one of the finer public laws ever written. Wildlife is held in PUBLIC OWNERSHIP and TRUST, as are public forests. Wildlife, being owned by The People as a whole and having economic values of which THE PUBLIC IS THE PRIMARY BENEFACTOR, "damages" legally are the public's responsibility and NOT that of sportsmen as a group.

Damage payments should be made out of each State's General Fund that desires to pass such game damage bills that serve private interests , and not one cent of hunting or fishing license dollars should be used except to support the operating budget of Colorado's Division of Wildlife or any Outdoor Agency of any other State so entrusted in the care of their outdoor wildlife inventories.

These are the kind of pressures that will be put on society in the future if they allow the Forest Service to get away with such a fifty-year timbering crazy concept they propose. After callous timbering comes livestock, and after livestock will come the lawsuits. This is the future these Draft Statements really offer citizens. [Moutain sides devoid of life never to see 500 year old trees ever again.]

In Colorado, damages are paid from hunting and fishing license dollars. The ranchers get an enormous amount of dollars that are taken away from managing wildlife. This results in a crippling blow to that State's outdoor inventory situation. The ranchers care not to repeal the self-serving laws. America is losing the Salmon National Forest to Agriculture and they will take all the timber, including all the virgin grasses. Then the ranchers move in and will turn around and sue for the grasses wildlife eats because the Rancers now own the lower winter meadows.

What the Draft Environmental Impact Statements don't point out is that increased herds of wapiti (elk) are forced into the winter lowlands EVERY YEAR! The public is sued for the meadow grasses they eat and the haystacks they get into. Including that, these same ranchers will graze on public lands for pocket change, bank HUGE PROFITS, employ no people and leave behind overgrazed land destruction with NO FOOD VALUES REMAINING FOR WILDLIFE!. Cattlemen also take the winter grasses that should be protected for our big game animals, and then when your animals are forced to the lower elevations to eat, the ranchers get arrogant and greedy and sue you. Elk and Deer literally starve to death looking at fat cattle across the fences.

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