I have some real problems with the wilderness area concept as it has been instituted and administered by the USFS. Apparently common sense has no place in a bureaucracy and even though good hard working people like yourself go to great pains to make things work you are limited by your own rules.
12 miles of trails in a wilderness area that are virtually unusable and you are getting complaints from outfitters? Let those that benefit the most, provide some funds and labor to fix them. Against the rules? Change the rules! Most of them are not laws passed by the congress, but policy set by the chair polishers at a higher level that are more interested in their carrers than in doing the right thing. That goes to the chainsaw question, it is understandable to keep chainsaws out of wilderness as a general rule, but to apply it to those that are trying to maintain the area is ridiculous. Fire fighters have died due to these policies, millions of dollars worth of timber are wasted annually due to these policies and many people are denied access to the land and forests that are, in truth, owned by the people due to these policies. Time for some drastic changes in those policies and administrators I think.