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• Board Meeting Date: 5/24/1999
• Description: Directors' Reports
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly
LLS NO. R99-0849.01 Pam Cybyske .
STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVES Hoppe, Smith, Alexander, Berry, Clapp,
Kester, Larson, McKay, Miller, Mitchell, Spradley, Taylor, Webster, T.
Williams; also Senators Dennis, Anderson, Arnold, Chlouber, Dyer,
Epps, Evans, Hillman, Musgrave, Teck, Watten~N~SSED

AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND NATURAL RESOURCES

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-1020

101 CONCERNING oPPOSmON TO H.R. 829, THE "COLORADO WILDERNESS
102 ACT OF 1999".

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WHEREAS, H.R. 829, the "Colorado Wilderness Act of 1999",
}Jroposes to designate another approximately one million four hundred
thousand acres of land in Colorado as wilderness prior to the revision of
many of Colorado's forest plans, thereby usurpmg the United States
Forest Service's land management review process and ignoring the
original wilderness recommendations made to the United States Congress
by the United States Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") that totaled
four hundred thirty-one thousand acres; and

WHEREAS, H.R. 829 was drafted without input from either the
general public or local elected officials and does away with local control
over land management; and

WHEREAS, Federal lands in Colorado have been exhaustively
studied for their wilderness suitability under the "Wilderness Act" of
1964, the Depadillent of Agriculture's second roadless area review and
evaluation (RARE IT), the wilderness evaluation by the BLM, the
"Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980", and the "Colorado Wilderness Act
of 1993"; and

WHEREAS, Many acres of federal lands slated for wilderness
designation do not qualify as pristine as required by the "Wilderness Act"
of 1964; and ,

WHEREAS, The United States Congress considered the option of
wilderness designation for federal lands m Colorado and deSIgnated
several areas under the "Wilderness Act" of 1964 and approved two
statewide wilderness bills. One of those statewide wilderness bills was
enacted in 1980 and classified one million four hundred thousand acres
as wilderness. The other was enacted in 1993 and provided wilderness
protection for six hundred eleven thousand seven hundred acres, bringing ,
the total wilderness acreage in Colorado to three million three hundred
thousand to date; and

$$Imli~~$)'tQfi$.ff;;~ Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment
Capital letters ;nmcaJe new maJer;al to he added to existing statute.
Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing staJute.

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