Re: Wilderness Designations

[Nancy DuPont <htrails@earthlink.net>]

>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:26:36 -0800
>To: connie B Berto <cberto@juno.com>
>From: Nancy DuPont <htrails@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: Wilderness Designations
>In-Reply-To: <19990216.010810.10111.88.cberto@juno.com>
>References: <004701be5a2a$6ee85a00$86378ed1@oemcomputer>
>
>As George Cardinet says and lives by: "We must practice good land
management" and that includes responsible grazing rules such as "animal
unit months" for limited grazing. That refers to how many animals can graze
per month on a given acreage without overgrazing.
>
>Residual Biomass in the high sierra is a buzz word for measuring and
controlling what plant life is left over and how fast it can recover.
>In Meadow Mountain management classes, the best way to preserve meadows is
not to forbid certain uses, but when it gets down to a minimum level for
recovery next year, that is the guideline for no more use.  Not from
squirrels, cows or horses. Until it reaches that minimum, we can use it for
grazing.
>
>These are the things we should focus on rather than banning a whole
segment of users to keep something pristine. 
>
>It is like caring for a garden.
>
>At 03:07 AM 2/17/99 EST, you wrote:
>>Right, Steven, we all can agree that  land must be preserved if it is to
>>be there for us to use in the future.  To repeat  what I said,  there are
>>other more user-friendly designations for public land that will also
>>preserve the resource, than creating wilderness areas with our tax
>>dollars and then locking us out.   Connie B.
>>
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