George Miller: “No one argues, no one argues with the purpose of the gentleman's remarks, but he cited the exact provision of the…”

“No one argues, no one argues with the purpose of the gentleman's remarks, but he cited the exact provision of the Wilderness Act that he and others have attacked now for 20 years and that is no motorized vehicles in wilderness areas. This comes at the same time in the session that we see Members on the other side supporting helicopter flights over wilderness, roads through wilderness of questionable need, added on as riders to the environmental legislation and tragically, unfortunately, I think that here again the disability groups are being used to try and confront what they really want, and that is opening up of the wilderness areas with roads and other means to overfly these areas and to start invading the various concepts of wilderness. This has been how they contest it in the gentlemen's States. People said they have rights to go into these areas. They bulldozed roads into some of the areas in southern Utah that are under study that are existing wilderness areas. This is a constant battle. Again, the wilderness disability groups and other groups have worked with the administration. They have worked out memorandums of understanding, and I have very serious concerns about Members using this legislation to try and attack a fundamental key component of the wilderness legislation about the use of motorized vehicles or any other motorized object in the wilderness area.”