(From the August/September Zephyr) The Zephyr Wilderness Plan, updated and revised…by Jim Stiles

An excerpt:

For decades, since the Wilderness Act was passed by Congress in 1964, citizens of this nation have waged war with each other over the need for wilderness and the size of the wilderness we need. The differences of opinion are staggering, the area of disagreement as wide as the Grand Canyon. Consider the views of Earth First! and the Western Association of Land Users (WALU.) The radical environmental group (so called) once proposed a 16,000,000 acre reserve for southern Utah which would turn our end of the state into one vast roadless area—Southern Utah before the uranium boom.

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