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Water Supply Protection
File Number
7630.285
Description
Wild and Scenic - General
State
CO
Basin
Statewide
Date
6/3/1974
Author
USFS
Title
Background Reports - Colorado and Wyoming Wilderness Areas - From-Wilderness and Wild Areas 50 th Anniversary - USFS
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />000898 <br /> <br />....J. .... <br /> <br />extensive overmature spruce covered areas, This resulted in the well known epidemic of <br />spruce bark beetles following the war and the loss of most large Engelmann spruce on <br />thousands of acres on the White River Plateau, <br /> <br />Today, the beetle killed trees are silvery snags projecting high above the young forest <br />struggling to replace their parents, The Primitive Area remains as described in 1932, <br />", "ideally adapted to pack trips, with outstanding., ,scenic features, excellent fishing <br />waters, big game animals, and inaccessibility other than by horseback or foot",." <br />However, the wilderness traveller of 1974 will find fewer ", "ideal camping places," than <br />his 1932 predecessor, for the beetles and an occasional high wind can combine to make it <br />unsafe to camp near the skeletons of the once great trees which clothed large parts of the <br />Flat Tops, <br /> <br />Although the Flat Tops Primitive Area was not among the areas reclassified as a Regulation <br />U-1 Wilderness prior to the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act, it is now under <br />consideration for addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System by Congress, In <br />the meantime, the Forest Service is continuing to manage the 102,124 acre Primitive Area <br />so that the natural processes can continue without interference by man; and, in the words of <br />the 1932 Management Plan, so ", , ,this and future generations may have the opportunity to <br />observe and enjoy the outdoors under conditions similar to those existing prior to the <br />inroads of civilization, , . ." <br /> <br />M <br />i <br />I <br />, <br /> <br />'I <br />I <br />Ii <br /> <br />" <br />
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