Senator Wallop 

 September 19, 19 86 

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The Spring Mountains are valuable as an outdoor 

 recreation area. It is the onlv area within a reasonable 

 distance of Las Vegas which provides forests, streams, 

 snow, skiing and an escape from summer heat. The U.S. 

 Forest Service is the nation's leading outdoor recreation 

 agency, providing more campgrounds, trails and public areas 

 than anv other government entity in •-he countv. The Forest 

 Service is the logical agencv to develop the Spring 

 Mountains into their full recreational potential. 



Recently, manv citizens in Las Vegas have said that 

 all of the Spring Mountains, not iust the northern portion, 

 should be added to the national forest. The Task Force 

 supports their proposal that Lovell Canvon and Mt . Potosi 

 in the southern Spring Mountains be added as well. It is 

 not efficient and goes against the objectives of this bill 

 to continue to have two agencies managing the same mountain 

 range. We have enclosed a map that shows our recommended 

 boundary for the Sprina Mountains. 



AGENCY AGREEMENT 



On January 22, 1986, the three chairmen of our 

 National Forests Task Force, Sue Wagner, Fred Gibson, and 

 myself, met with all of the Nevada Congressional Delegation 

 and with the Chief of the Forest Service, together with 

 staff, and the Assistant Director o^ the BLM, together with 

 staff, as well as a representative of Nevada's aovernor 

 and others. The purpose of the meeting was to reach 

 consensus on that part of the general interchange bill as 

 it would affect Nevada. 



That group reached consensus, without ob-iection, on 

 the present content of S2698, qualified onl" bv the 

 observation that the Spring Mountains acreage w^s rot 

 identified to include the Lovell Canvon and the Mt . Pr tosi 

 areas at that time. 



As it became increasingly apparent that the < 

 interchange bill had little support and would 

 approved by the Congress during this Session, we ip 

 and our Congressional Delegation agreed that the ccr' 

 the general interchange bill, as it would applv to V' 



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