Wilderness designation is an act of communism

Letter to the Editor:

I would like to ask our county commissioners if they are really working for jobs in Lincoln County, or for jobs in mills in northern Idaho or the Flathead Valley, as that is where all the logs go. With no major mills in this county, you will gain very few jobs, maybe a few truckers and a few loggers. A logging company logged behind our place three years ago and three loggers operated the whole company.

For these few jobs our commissioners are willing to give the treehuggers over 200,000 acres of our forest to wilderness designation.

All the natural resources are lost for good.

The West Cabinets, including Scotchman Peaks, have mineralization similar to the host rock of the Troy Mine. But Mr. Peck seems to think wilderness designation is the answer to any agreement with the treehuggers, while it’s really nothing but blackmail by these people.

Who will stop environmentalists from filing lawsuits from Missoula or any place else in the country?

Also, wilderness designation is an act of communism, where the feds take total control of everything below the ground and everything above, with no input from the public.

— Harvey Fredericksen, Libby