Originally Posted by
MudderChuck
Maybe I misread your posts?
There are NO exemptions for anyone in wilderness areas, including state and Federal employees just like I stated. If you can find any legalese like you say you read, please post it up as IMHO you are just fishing for a way out of Dodge and we're talking about hunting!
FYI most all designated wilderness areas are under control of the USFS, not the BLM, and no mining or anything else is allowed other than hiking, hunting, grazing and fishing with access on foot or by horse/mule. The BLM is an entirely different situation in that there is a lot of grazing, mining, oil & gas exploration allowed under tightly controlled permits on those lands. The same holds true of USFS lands that aren't designated wilderness areas.
You are right, I'm wrong for arguing with a ___ .
I'm not going to look up links for you, maybe I'd toss you a rock if you were drowning. That would be about the extend of my helpfulness.
You didn't misread anything I posted and your last two posts are nothing but baloney and talking down to someone that knows what he's talking about! You're just being argumentative making statements that you can't and won't back up because they aren't there to back you up. It would have been very easy for you to post up a link and not just type something out to make it look like you were correct. Unlike you, I don't enter a debate and post a bunch of conjecture with no legal backup or facts to back myself up. These last two posts of yours show exactly what I've stated in that you are now attacking the messenger in violation of site rules because you have nothing to back up anything you've stated. When you have some extra time take a look at these two links:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/blm...ilderness.html and
www.fs.fed.us/managing-land/wilderness In those links you will find that the BLM administers 222 wilderness areas with 8.7 million acres in 10 western states and
that is only 3% of the total acreage that the BLM oversees in the coterminous US!
The USFS has 442 wilderness areas under its jurisdiction and along with other areas under its control has a total of 762 areas under the NWPS totaling 108,916,684 acres! Seems as that is what I stated in a previous post when I said most is under USFS and not the BLM! PS: I will give you one thing that under the Wilderness Preservation Act of 1964 it does allow limited motorized vehicle use, but only in case of an emergency as you mentioned and that would be few and far between like when there is a man made fire that has to be extinguished since natural fire under the Act is allowed to burn itself out for the most part.