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Senator presses Forest Service official over 122,780 acres of "recommended wilderness" in Manti-LaSalle plan
Summary
A senator challenged a Forest Service official about the Manti-LaSalle National Forest draft plan’s recommendation of 122,780 acres as "recommended wilderness," saying state and county input was disregarded; the official said a meeting with county supervisors is planned and that the 2001 roadless rule "wasn't designed" for wildfire mitigation.
A senator on the record pressed a Forest Service official about the draft Manti-LaSalle National Forest plan, which the senator said "proposes 122,780 acres of 'recommended wilderness.'" The senator said the recommendation conflicts with the compromise reached under the Utah Wilderness Act of 1984 and argued that state and county resource-management plans appear to have been disregarded.
"The only way we get healthy forests is by having flexibility to perform active management of the forest," the senator said, arguing that designated…
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