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Quoting from the Hinchey letter, with my emphasis It's been argued that Wilderness designation locks up the area 'for ever'. But it can equally be argued that bulldozing a road destroys the wilderness character 'for ever'. Which forever is longer? What's with this “Norton-Leavitt...

Road closures to protect flora and fauna occur in non-wilderness areas as well. Some are seasonal, protecting them during vulnerable periods. - There's a paved parkway in Banff NP, parallel to the main highway, that is closed seasonally to protect wildlife. Hwy 40 over Highwood Pass (south of...

I wasn't aware of the 5000 acre limit. The way it is put in a BLM document that I downloaded (H-8550-1) is: "(3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition;" Section 2(c) of the Wilderness Act of...

Speaking of roads along Wilderness boundaries, and cherrystemed, the Mugruder Corridor from Idaho to Montana comes to mind. It separates the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. wiki

Here is a link to BLM's description and map of Mexican Mountain WSA, and 6 adjacent inventoried areas. http://www.access.gpo.gov/blm/utah/pdf/ec85.pdf This Price Field Office document has comments on the boundaries of this WSA, starting on page 32 and 74...

This is the PlusNut that Yakima uses with their tracks http://www.orsracksdirect.com/yakima-8810102-plusnut-spare-part.html For a similar application Thule uses M5 'flare nuts' (and M5 25mm bolts).

http://coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/machines/401692 http://www.coffee-makers-cafe.com/espresso-moka-stovetop.html finer than drip, not quite true espresso

The 4.2 m special BLM lands includes Grand Staircase land. Some of that is WSA, and a wilderness in the highest part. How is access in the rest of the Monument? Too easy, too restrictive? I've driven through on hwy 12, and hiked a bit at Calf Creek, but not driven off the highway...

I have found information on Utah WSAs at http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/utah_wilderness/wilderness_inventory.html http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/natural_resources/utah_wilderness/wilderness_revision.Par.98860.File.dat/MoabFORevision.pdf is the pdf document for...

On Wilderness.net, most the summary data can be viewed in terms of acreage or in terms of the number of units. I have focused on the acreage, since as you note, areas vary substantially in acreage. But looking at the number of units, I find that Utah as 31, about 4% of the national total...

This map view of Cedar Mtn Wilderness (just south of I80) has 5 'cherry stemmed' blocks, most likely school trust land http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&print=yes&latitude=40.706148461723764&longitude=-112.95318603515625&zoom=11&maptype=G_HYBRID_MAP

Here's an interactive map of Wilderness Areas http://www.wilderness.net/mapFull.cfm Compared to its neighbors, Utah is remarkably devoid of Wilderness. Admittedly this does not include WSAs. Most of Utah's Wilderness is in the NE mountains. The largest appears to be the High Unitas Wilderness...

The pro-wilderness people contend that that inventory was biased and inadequate http://www.uwcoalition.org/about/history.html#blm-inventory http://www.uwcoalition.org/faq/blmInventory.html More details of the initial BLM inventory can be found the book, Wilderness at the Edge...

The Redrock proposal maps show school trust lands - they stand out as 'sore thumbs' within proposed wilderness areas. As best I can tell, none of these blocks will be included in the wilderness - at least not without an agreed upon swap. I'd have to look at the maps again to see whether any...

These lands were in Federal hands before the state was created. The allocation of land was worked out as part of state creation process. In most of these western states, blocks of land were given to railroads as an inducement to lay tracks. Other land was given to states, generally for the...

Who did you get the Eureka from? It looks like a European model, not a USA one. It has features that are relatively rare in the US, such as the external skeleton (poles fit in the waterproof 'fly', not the inner tent), and a good connection to a car. Eureka US is mostly aimed at a...

Have you measured differences in temperature between inside and out? Or is the difference in warmth just due to the lack of wind? I've consistently measured at 10 deg (F) difference inside/out when 2 of us sleep in my Honda Element (with just a small vent window). This is measured first thing...