Letter to the Editor: Commissioner responds

Dear Editor:
This letter is in response to a letter concerning H.R. 1581, the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act.Let me start by talking about wilderness areas.Wilderness areas are authorized by Congress under a set of specific guidelines (please see Wilderness Act 1964 sec 2c definition). To start the designation process an area is studied to determine if it meets the criteria or not. If it meets the criteria it can be designated as…