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Keep The Medicine Bow WILD
Summaries of Key aspects of the WILD Alternative
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Saving the Special Places
The Keep the Medicine Bow Wild Plan will protect all remaining roadless areas larger than 5,000 acres on the Medicine Bow National Forest-many of which will be proposed for permanent protection as wilderness.
Protecting roadless areas makes sense.
- Roadless Areas provide a full range of recreational opportunities. It is becoming increasingly difficult to get away from roads and clearcuts on the Medicine Bow. By protecting roadless areas, the Keep the Medicine Bow WILD plan will ensure that anglers, hunters, and hikers can continue to enjoy the beauty of untrammeled nature and "get away from it all" on this forest.
- Protecting roadless areas on the Medicine Bow will benefit hunters. Healthy elk and deer populations need large areas of undisturbed habitat for hiding cover and shelter from the hot summer sun and winter wind. Some of this forest's best areas of undisturbed habitat are in roadless areas.
- Of course, protecting roadless areas will also benefit the animals and plants of the Medicine Bow. Many animals, like the Northern Goshawk, require large areas of continuous forest to survive-exactly the kind of habitat found in roadless areas. If roadless areas disappear, so too will many of the rare animals that inhabit these wild lands.
The Keep the Medicine Bow WILD Plan will work to permanently protect many of the forest's roadless areas for future generations. Some of these special places are:
- Rock Creek Canyon - Ancient lodgepole pines and a spectacular stream occupy this heavily timbered canyon.
- Laramie Peak - 400-year-old ponderosa pine and the extremely rare Laramie columbine are harbored within this roadless area.
- Huston Park Additions - These large roadless lands next to the Huston Park Wilderness Area provide old-growth habitat to forest dwelling animals, and provide human visitors spectacular scenery.
- Vedauwoo - Truly incredible rock formations, beaver dams, forested slopes and open meadows are only some of the outstanding qualities making this roadless area deserving of wilderness.
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