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~ 001973 . Page Four By Roger C. BrOl.Jn \ \ Any activity on Middle Creek would cut into deer migration routes. Presently when the deer come down out of the Gore Range they travel through the Middle Creek drain- age on their way west to their winter grazing area. The ski area activities and the highway have done serious damage to the deer population on the south side of Vail Valley. Now the Forest Service wants to come in and disrupt the north side. This is inconsistent with the multiple use concept which is supposed to consider wildlife. The removal of the forest and the addition of roads to the Middle Creek area would destroy the protective cover the deer have there now, and desper- ately need if they are to survive the other onslaughts of corrmercial development occurri ng around the Eagl es fJest Hil derness. . To sum up I feel that the United States Forest Service has gone against the prin- ciples of a sound land ethic, the ethic they created and lived by many years ago, and which gave them the reputation they are no.! destroying. No reasonable approach to land management would ever condone the separation of water and land to the extent to which it will occur in the Denver I'later Boardls Eagle Piney Project. The Forest Service has taken the position of being the protector of the exploiter (the Denver Hater Board) rather than the protector of the exploited (the land and the people in the drainages emanating from the Gore Range). The \'Jest Slope continues to be the sacrificial lamb, being ever slaughtered to supply the needs of the East Slope megacity. It is bad enough to have the po- litically powerful East Slope carrying on this wanton destruction, but to have the agencies of the Federal Government, like the Forest Service, supporting such actions, sacrificing a heritage that belongs to all the people of the nation, is intolerable. Something must be done. Please write your Congressman and 'the President. . Thank you. I