PINE MOUNTAIH AND SYCAMORE CANYON WILDERNESS AREAS The proposed Pine Mountain and Sycamore Canyon Wildernesses in Arizona received widespread support at a hearing before the House Public Lands Subcommittee. Eight witnesses from Arizona gave the proposals their complete, support and asked the committee to amend the Forest Service boundary for Sycamore Canyon to include three small additions. The only objection came from a representative of the Arizona Cattle-growers Association, who objected to the Pine Mountain proposal. DOT FREEZES FUNDS FOR PALMDALE AIRPORT In an affidavit filed July 15, the Department of Transportation disclosed that it will hold up disbursement of federal funds for the proposed Palmdale Intercontinental Airport in Los Angeles County pending the completion of additional studies of the environmental impact of the airport. DESERT CONSERVATION AREA Rep. Bob Mathias of California has introduced a bill to establish a 12 million acre California Desert National Conservation Area aimed at protection of the region's threatened ecological, economic and recreational resources. The bill was referred to the House Interior Committee. ROADHEAD THEFTS The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department has informed us that gangs similar to those that steal skis and clothing at winter sports areas are now stealing equipment from hikers camped for the night at roadheads. The leader of a small party of knapsackers camped on a recent Friday night at Echo Lakes Campground on U.S. 50 phoned to say that when his party awakened the next morning all their knapsack equipment, clothing, food and cameras, in fact everything except the bags they, were sleeping in, had been stolen. EMBLEM REQUIREMENTS Emblems are awarded to members of the Desert Peaks Section who have climbed five of the six emblem peaks plus any ten additional peaks on the DPS qualifying list. Note that a person must be a member of the DPS; this in turn requires that he be a member of the Sierra Club. To apply for membership a person should send to the Secretary: 1) His or her Sierra Club membership number. 2) A list of six or more qualifying peaks climbed and the dates of the climbs. 3) One dollar (per family), if not already a subscriber, for a year's subscription to the DPS NEWSLETTER. To apply for the emblem, a member should send to the Secretary: 1) His or her membership number. 2) A list of at least five emblem peaks and ten additional qualifying peaks climbed and the dates of the climbs. 3) $6.50, our actual cost, for the emblem itself. A member may be listed as an emblem holder in our official records without having to purchase the emblem. ADVANCE NOTICE Sept 4-6   Arc Dome   Bill Clifton and Jon Inskeep Oct 2-3    Inyo Crest Caravan   Jon Inskeep Oct 6      First meeting of the year Oct 9-10   Mt DuBois   Les Stockton and Ken Ferrel Oct 16-17  Manly and Corkscrew   Paul Nelson In the next Newsletter, we will have the exciting story of Jerry Haven's traverse of the Escalante River along with two book reviews on some of Walt Wheelock's latest. They were to be in this issue, but as yet have not been received, and Jerry claims that he mailed them a week ago. Sure, Jer.

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