Richard Pombo: “If Members will look at these valid private property areas that are included in this one map, and I have many others if…”

“If Members will look at these valid private property areas that are included in this one map, and I have many others if anybody would like to see the others, they will see that without this guaranteed access, without leaving these roads out of the wilderness area and the road only out of the wilderness area, these property owners would have no access to those properties. As an example, this person right here would be 6 miles from the nearest road in order to reach his private property. How would that person possibly have access to what he pays taxes on, to what he pays the mortgage on without leaving open just these roads? To put it in perspective, each one of these dots on the map represents a square mile. We are not talking about lots in the city. We are not talking about a subdivision here. We are talking about every one of these represents a square mile, and you can see that in this region here where many people, many older Americans from my district, go to gather rocks for their hobby of rock collecting and mineral shows, they would have to walk several miles in the desert in order to maintain their private property and maintain their habit of collection.”