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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />interest the President can permit water storage and water development. <br /> <br />Mr. Barnard: Has it ever been done? <br /> <br />Mr. Hau~: Not to my knowledge. <br /> <br />Mrs. Gardner: What is the effect of vehicular traffic on alpine meadows? <br /> <br />Mr. Hauk: This is a vehicular restriction situation. We started this <br />over on the North Fork of the White River. This was a few years ago, <br />primarily to try it out during hunting season. We are going to be <br />doing more and more of this. We have quite a few areas now closed to <br />all vehicular travel outside of the existing wilderness and primitive <br />areas, primarily because of environmental damage by motor bikes or four- <br />wheel drive vehicles. And once you get a trail going across, then you <br />are stuck because that next guy if he can't make it, then he trys <br />another and pretty soon you have a series of tracks across these meadows. <br />What we are trying to get across to people and enforcing it and we are <br />getting tougher every year about it, is they stay on established roads. <br />They park the~r vehicle and then they walk. A lot of people are up <br />tight about tnis, but this is one of the things we are doing. But we <br />are not closing all of the fringe areas or the multiple-use type manage- <br />ment areas to vehicular travel because those people have the right to <br />get out too and see the country. <br /> <br />Mr. Barnard: But in wilderness classification they could not even use <br />the established roads. <br /> <br />Mr. Hauk: That's right. In those roads inside the wilderness there are <br />no motor vehicles allowed in any classified wilderness or primitive areas. <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Hey now, wait a minute: There has been the Uncompahgre. <br />Those roads were there before the Forest Service was ever around. <br /> <br />Mr. Hauk: And this is one of the reasons they had the big hassle in <br />trying to get some of that stuff out because this doesn't meet the qual- <br />ity standards of the Wilderness Act. But this is generally right in the <br />middle of this thing. Actually, that country never should have been <br />put in. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: If you don't mind, I am going to excuse Mr. Hauk. I <br />would love to have you hear the rest of the discussion, but I am now <br />going to turn to the water rights problems and the water development <br />problems as they relate to this area. Larry, would you like to start <br />that out? <br /> <br />-35- <br />