Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Thoreau

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Simplify, Simplify, Simplify -Thoreau

• Avoiding Over- Designation

William Robert Pfinsgraff, Kristin Marie Ryder,
Steven James Uziel
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Group Ethic

• Limited wilderness expansion
• Consideration of Citizens Proposal
• Maximum 2/8 of proposed designation areas
• Tionesta scenic area
• Economics of region
• Disease control
• Necessity of permanent designation

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Target Designation Areas

• Areas with motor vehicle stipulations
• Limited to no industry
• Distant proximity from current spread of disease
• Little economic impact in region
• Tionesta Scenic Area
• Cornplanter
• Chestnut Ridge

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Regarding Permanence

• Insect and disease control
• Economic well-being of proposed region
• Experimentation and research possibilities
• Hickory Creek
• Lacks species diversity
• Requires management

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Insect control

• Non-Designation allows for management and
  possible prevention of spread and infestation
• Gypsy moth infestation in PA (bottom left)
• Beech bark disease widespread
• Beech scale
• Wooly Adelgid (right)

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Avoiding Industry and Development

• Timber
• Oil
• Construction
• Permanent roads
• and paved areas
• Economics

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Allowing In-depth Research

• Watershed studies
• Enclosure studies
• Animal tagging and observation
• Extensive soil composition studies
• Requiring machinery

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Tionesta Scenic Area

• Current Status
• Motor vehicles restricted
• No industry (timber and oil production)
• 2018 acres
• Researchers wrote 300 articles based on research
  about or within wilderness areas (in the ANF).
  The direct benefit of this research is estimated
  at 5 million nationwide annually.
• The Wilderness Society

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Cornplanter

• 3054 acres of Warren county
• Only one oil well (1993)
• 1.4 miles of road (2003)
• National Recreational area
• PA wilderness act of 1984

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Chestnut Ridge

• 4952 acres of Warren County
• Current status
• Management area
• One oil well (2003)
• 0.1 miles of road

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Conclusion

• Pragmatic preservation
• Approximately 10,000
• Acres increase
• Tionesta
• Cornplanter
• Chestnut Ridge
• Why Thoreau?