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<br />0"-'''3 <br />..1-,07 <br /> <br />/2 ' /0 ' '7D <br /> <br />BLM to offer <br />wilderness plan <br /> <br />440,000 Colorado acres affected <br /> <br />By Mark Obmascik <br />Denver Post enwonmenl Writer <br />Some of Colorado's highest mounlains and deepest river <br />canyons would be forever spared from development under <br />a 440,OOO-acre wilderness plan to be proposed next month <br />by the state's U.S. Bureau of Land Management office. <br />Colorado BLM directors will <br />ask national administrators to . BLM PROPOSALS:. <br />. A look at the 22 new wI!. <br />end~rse federal wilderness pro- derness areas proposed <br />techon for 22 tracts scattered by the U.S. Bureau of <br />mainly across the Western Land Management./6A <br />Slope. But congressional ap- <br />proval is required before any areas are declared off.limits <br />to road-building, dam-building, oil drilling and mechanized <br />transport such as dirt-biking. <br />The land includes three 14,OOO-foot peaks near Lake City <br />and popular whitewaler rafting runs on the Gunnison, Ar- <br />kansas and Dolores rivers. The areas feature 2,OOO.foot <br />gorges, Anasazi Indian ruins, magnificent sandstone arch- <br />es, old cattle-rustler hideouts., fat rainbow trout, miles of <br /> <br />Please see WILDERNESS on SA <br />