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| No. 37 |
COLORADO WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS | |
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| The San Juan National
Forest in Colorado has tentatively recommended wilderness status for
two of three Wilderness Study Areas included for review in Public Law
96-560, known as the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980. These
areas, Piedro (41,500), and West Needles (20,340), have high wilderness
attributes and receive significant wilderness use by the citizens of
southwestern Colorado and out-of-state visitors. They provide
important habitat for elk, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, mountain
lions, river otter, and ptarmigan. A third area, 32,800-acre
South San Juan Wilderness Additions, which the San Juan National Forest
proposed for development, also qualifies as wilderness. It
provides habitat for the threatened grizzly bear, last encountered in
the vicinity in 1979. The area is a valuable potential addition
to the 130,000-acre South San Juan Wilderness, and contains extremely
little sawtimber and no known operable minerals or other merchantable
products. |
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The Federation of
Western
Outdoor Clubs endorses the San Juan National Forest wilderness
proposals for the Piedra and West Needles areas, and urges that the
South San Juan Wilderness Additions also be recommended for wilderness
status. |
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