Dear HCN,
It constantly amazes me
how nasty a slant HCN can put on its articles.
If you have to do that to sell your magazines, you should be
ashamed of yourselves. The only thing truly ugly about the Pasayten
Wilderness (HCN, 12/17/01: A crowded Washington wilderness gets
ugly) is Martha Hall and the other eco-crazies who wildly attack
legally authorized users of the wilderness systems. Of course, we
have problems in our wilderness, some of which could be corrected
if all the folks involved could talk to each other in a reasonable
manner.
The USFS has serious problems
administrating the wilderness, because all their funds and
personnel hours go toward studies instead of trail maintenance and
management solutions. Due to a lack of trail management, we have
lost the use of a major portion of the trails in the wilderness,
which has indeed created more congestion. There are other problems
too numerous to mention here, but I believe we could go a long way
toward solving them if we approached them in a reasonable
manner.
I think if your writer would read the
1964 Wilderness Act, it guarantees the continued use of the
wilderness for certain commercial activities. The wilderness is
very important to many in our local communities and we all hope we
can find a way to work together to protect them for the future
without creating the nastiness your article
implies.
Carl R.
Miller
Winthrop,
Washington
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