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The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a significant new manipulation project inside the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness on the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah. Your comments are needed by May 30th to convince the agency to let Wilderness be in this beautiful mountain island Wilderness.
The Forest Service is planning the "Grass Valley Watershed Restoration Project" in the Pine Valley Ranger District, which includes the Wilderness. The project area includes 9,268 acres of the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness, of which 8,721 acres are proposed for "treatment" by burning.
The proposal to burn forest within the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness is not in keeping with the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Forest Service proposes to burn more than 8,700 acres of Wilderness to, among other reasons, prevent future fires from burning outside the wilderness boundary. Such prescribed burning would manipulate the Wilderness and impose human will and intent on the landscape. Such manipulation is not authorized by the 1964 Wilderness Act, which requires that Wildernesses be unmanipulated by humans and remain "untrammeled by man." If the Forest Service is concerned about fire outside the Wilderness then that’s where it needs to focus its efforts. It is wrong to compromise the wilderness character of the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness to achieve some non-wilderness purpose.
Wilderness Watch encourages allowing natural, lightning-caused fires to play their ecological and evolutionary role in the Wilderness, but the Forest Service proposal in this project represents exactly the kind of manipulation that the architects of the Wilderness Act sought to prevent.
Please tell the Forest Service to leave nature alone in the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness!
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