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<br />. . . <br /> <br />r: <br /> <br />000712 <br /> <br />."', <br /> <br />Forest Service Acting Chief, C. M. Granger, approved the elimination of Black Gore Creek <br />from the Primitive .Area on July 22, 1939. This action was taken to permit construction of <br />the Vail Pass Highway' U. S. 6, and is now the route of Interstate 70. The modification <br />resulted in a reduction in size for the Primitive Area to 61,275 acres gross, with 71 acres of <br />private land included. In 1974, the Primitive Area contains 61,942 acres gross with 183 <br />acres of private land included-the slight change due to improvement in mapping. <br /> <br />"1 <br /> <br />'. <br />, <br /> <br />In 1941, Holy Cross National Forest Supervisor J. V. Leighou, prepared a modified report <br />and Management Plan for the contiguous Primitive Areas, combining them into a single unit. <br />This was approved by Forest Service Acting Chief C. M. Granger on December 3,1941, <br />under Regulation U-3. Classification under U-3 was an unusual, if not unique, action since <br />during that period the Forest Service program of reclassifying L-20 Primitive Areas under <br />.the new, and more restrictive U-1 and U-2 regulations for Wilderness and Wild Areas, <br />respectively, was proceeding. However, the Gore Range-Eagles Nest became a U-3 Primitive <br />Area and remains so to this day, pending action by Congress to designate it as Wilderness. <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />The revised 1941 Management Plan noted that about 1,000 persons a year used the area, <br />and said this use resulted in perhaps ". . .a total of $10,000 spent in local communities <br />adjacent to the area," adding, "It is possible that recreational use of this type of area will <br />increase and. . .revenues will correspondingly increase," Today, the Gore Range-Eagles Nest <br />is in the center of one of the heavier used recreation regions in the nation. Surrounded by <br />the ski and recreational complexes near Vail and Dillion, it remains, "one of the most <br />rugged, picturesque and inaccessible mountain ranges in Colorado," and a vital part of a <br />balanced pattern of National Forest land use. <br /> <br />~ <br />I <br /> <br />11 <br />:1 <br /> <br />I' <br />0' <br /> <br />.1 <br />, <br /> <br />~ I <br />