Some more
work will have to be done and these problems cleared up at the October
meeting.
Chapter Executive Committee: The nominating Committee
for the election of four two year members to the Angeles Chanter 1973-1974
Executive Committee has been formed and it requests suggestions from the
chapter membership for qualified candidates. Please see that such suggestions
reach one of the members of the nominating Committee before the deadline date
of May 25. Committee members are: Arthur Brown, Al Campbell, Wilson Dresler
(chairman), Dick Eckert, Fred Grabiel, Betty Jo Hodge, Warren Kessler and Mac
Terrell.
Names of selected candidates wi11 be placed on the bulletin
board at chapter headquarters after June 1. The deadline for candidates to he
added to the slate by petition is August l; a petition requires 134 or more
member signatures.
Wilderness Areas: |
1) Saguaro NM:
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The
National Park Service will hold master plan and wilderness hearings next week
for Saguaro National Monument (March 25 in Tucson). The DPS recommends
designation of 32,300 acres of Saguaro as wilderness, excluding some areas of
the Monument because of grazing permits and mining claims. The Sierra Club does
not feel that these should disqualify an area from wilderness consideration,
however, and recommends a total of 68,900 acres as wilderness. It also asks for
the elimination of enclaves and management zones. Conservationists are urged to
support the Club's position by writing before April 5 to: Superintendent,
Saguaro National Monument, P.O. Box 17210, Tucson, Arizona 85710. |
2) White Sands MM:
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The
world's largest gypsum dune field lies within White Sands National Monument in
Mew Mexico, established by Presidential Proclamation in 1933. Its sands rise
for several miles as spectacular, elongated, transverse dunes, sometimes 30 to
40 feet high. Currently the western portion of the Monument is used for space
and missile activities, and for this reason the Park Service will recommend at
a hearing April 1 in Alamogordo, N.M., that no wilderness be designated. The
Sierra Club, however, believes that a large part of White Sands is suitable for
wilderness, since the missile impacts and recovery operations do not
substantially affect the Monument's wilderness character. It therefore
recommends designation of 130,900 acres in order to protect the area as well as
to increase the diversity of the Wilderness System. The hearing record remains
open for letters until May 19 and conservationists are urged to write:
Superintendent, White Sands National Monument, P.O. Box 458, Alamogordo, N.M.
88310. |
3) Sycamore Canyon:
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On
Tuesday, the Senate accepted House amendments to S.960, thereby clearing for
the White House legislation to establish the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Area in
Arizona. |
4) Others: |
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Among the
18 new areas President Nixon has urged be designated as wilderness
are:
Weminuche, Eagles Nest, Black
Canyon and Colorado Monument, all in Colorado; Blue Range and Chiricahua in
Arizona; Aldo Leopold and Bosque del Apeche in |
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