50 YEARS AGO

November 18, 1971 – It was anything but relaxing and certainly a very different kind of “wilderness experience” for those who attended the lengthy hearings, Monday through Thursday this week on the Uncompahgre Primitive Area. Hearings began Monday morning in Grand Junction with an attendance estimated at 300, about one-fourth of whom made statements. There, speakers who supported the Forest Service proposal to declassify the primitive area, recommending multiple use managem...