Kristine Struck, a wilderness specialist for the Bureau of Land
Management, said public meetings on the plan drew few people
because it was not controversial. Congress made the tough
decisions before enacting legislation designating the wilderness
areas in 2000, she said, and they'll continue to be managed with
no major changes under the new plan completed this month. "There
wasn't anybody who expressed any concern," Struck said. "The
establishment by Congress of the wilderness areas was fairly
controversial, but the management since then hasn't been
controversial." Continued management actions will include
reclamation of closed routes, noxious weed control and wildfire
rehabilitation. Additional actions could include restoration of
aspen and cottonwood stands eliminated by human activity, and
inventories of historical, cultural and paleontological sites.
The remote, starkly beautiful wilderness areas were established
by the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails
National Conservation Area Act of