Larch Occasional Paper #11 February 2012 The National Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger and Better.

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1 Larch Occasional Paper #11 February 2012 The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better by Andy Kerr 1 Abstract Compared to its four adjacent neighbors, Oregon has the smallest percentage of its ls designated as units of the Wilderness Preservation System. While the average of the areas of the five states protected as wilderness is more than 9 percent, in Oregon less than 4 percent of the l is so protected. Oregon has 47 wilderness areas totaling 2,457,473 acres. Additional potential wilderness areas (a.k.a. roadless areas) in Oregon total more than 12 million acres, with approximately 61 percent of that area being generally tree-free (in the Oregon High Desert other desert areas considered part of the sagebrush steppe) the remainder generally forested. Congress should expeditiously exp the Wilderness System in Oregon. Introduction Congress enacted the Wilderness Act, which established the Wilderness Preservation System, in 1964: In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by exping settlement growing mechanization, does not occupy modify all areas within the United States its possessions, leaving no ls designated for preservation protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness. 2 Those areas of the System that had already been designated administratively by the Service as either wilderness or wild areas were immediately included in the 1 Andy Kerr (ykerr@ykerr.net) is czar of The Larch Company ( which has offices in Ashl, Oregon, Washington, DC. 2 Wilderness Act (P.L ), 16 U.S.C. 1131(a). The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 1

2 system. 3 Over the years, Congress has seen fit to exp many of those original areas to include additional areas as designated wilderness. This paper compares the percentage of Oregon designated as wilderness to its adjacent neighbors; summarizes Oregon wilderness areas by name, federal administrative unit, size, other facts; summarizes the amount of de facto wildls in Oregon that could be added to the Wilderness Preservation System. Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know we are still a rich nation, tending to our resources as we should not a people in despair searching every last nook cranny of our l for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water. Senator Clinton Anderson (D-NM) (principal sponsor of the first Wilderness Act) Figure 1. As of January 2009, Shellrock Lake is now safely within the Roaring River Wilderness on the. George Wuerthner Area of Oregon Wilderness Versus Wilderness in Adjacent States It s rather embarrassing. California, sure. Washington, okay. But Nevada? Even Idaho!? Compared to its closest neighbors, Oregon has the smallest percentage of its ls designated as units of the Wilderness Preservation System (see Table 1). 3 Ibid., The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 2

3 State Table 1. Comparison of the Area of Designated Wilderness in Oregon Adjacent States 4 Total L Wilderness Area in Acres Acres Percentage of L Area Designated as Wilderness Total Oregon Wilderness Acres Needed to Achieve Percentage Parity with Other States Total Additional Oregon Wilderness Acres Needed to Reach Percentage Parity with Other States OREGON 62,163,840 2,457, % Idaho 53,484,800 4,522, % 5,256,696 2,799,223 California 104,765,440 15,000, % 8,900,605 6,443,132 Washington 46,784,000 4,423, % 5,877,562 3,420,089 Nevada 70,759,040 3,368, % 2,959, ,111 Average 9.25% 5,748,611 3,291,138 The last column in Table 1 shows how many additional acres of wilderness Congress would need to designate in order for Oregon to achieve percentage parity with each of its neighbors. Fortunately, we have the wildl acres to do it if we have the political will. I know just where those acres are. 5 The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness lies the preservation of the World. Existing Oregon Wilderness Areas Henry David Thoreau Table 2 lists existing Oregon wilderness areas by name, federal administrative unit(s), ecoregion, size, year of establishment. The Size in Acres column represents the most accurate acreages available. The Notes column contains additional information highlighting the history of an area /or interesting anomalies, as well as approximate acreage figures reflecting estimates at the time of designation as reference in the applicable statute. Congress enacted legislation pertaining to Oregon wilderness areas between : 1964 Wilderness Act (P.L ), Sept. 3, Mount Jefferson Wilderness, Oregon (Act) (P.L ), Oct. 2, Public Ls Wilderness Areas (Act) (P.L ), Oct. 23, Minam River Canyon Wilderness, Oregon (Act) (P.L ), Oct. 21, Hells Canyon Recreation Area Act (P.L ), Dec. 31, a Endangered American Wilderness Area Act (P.L ) (incorporated Oregon Omnibus Wilderness Act of 1978), Feb. 28, b Indian Peaks Wilderness Area, The Arapaho Recreation Area the Oregon Isls Wilderness Area Act (P.L ), Oct. 11, Oregon Wilderness Act (P.L ), June 26, Oregon Resource Conservation Act (P.L ), Sept. 30, 1996; Omnibus Parks Public Ls Management Act (P.L ), Nov. 12, Steens Mountain Cooperative Management Protection Act (P.L ), Oct. 30, Omnibus Public L Management Act of 2009 (P.L ), March 30, Primary sources: L area of other states, territories_by_area; wilderness in other states, Wilderness.net ( 5 See Additional Resources at the end for the two books I ve written on potential wilderness areas in Oregon. 6 Both 1996 laws contain identical language protecting Opal Creek Wilderness. In a rare occurrence, conservationists primary backup legislative strategies both succeeded in Congress (involving attaching the Opal Creek language to two different bills), resulting in the area being saved twice. The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 3

4 Name Badger Creek Black Canyon Boulder Creek Bridge Creek Year Established, Exped Bull-of-the- Woods Clackamas Copper Salmon Cummins Creek Diamond Peak Drift Creek, BLM District, / or Wildlife Refuge System Ochoco Umpqua Ochoco Rogue River Siskiyou Siuslaw Deschutes, s Siuslaw Level III Ecoregion Table 2. Oregon Wilderness Areas 7 Size in Acres 19, Notes 29, , 2009 Originally designated with approximately 25,000 acres. In 2009, 1,135 acres were added to the core unit a 3,004-acre Bonnie Butte Unit was added. 13, , , , 2009 Originally designated with approximately 33,900 acres. In 1996, 7,466 acres on the was transferred into the Opal Creek Wilderness upon its establishment. See note for Opal Creek. Approximately 10,180 acres was added in , Includes five units: Big Bottom (1,263 acres), Clackamas Canyon (1,247 acres), Memaloose Lake (1,131 acres), Sisi Butte (3,243 acres), South Fork Coast Coast Coast 13, , Clackamas (2,579 acres) 54, , 1984 Administratively established as a wild area on February 5, 1957, at approximately 35,440, with 15,700 acres added later. 5, Additional primary sources include accompanying legislative history including committee reports, Wilderness.net (http: The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 4

5 Eagle Cap Gearhart Mountain Grassy Knob Hells Canyon Kalmiopsis Wallowa- Whitman Fremont- Winema Rogue River Siskiyou Wallowa- Whitman, Vale District of the BLM (Hells Canyon Recreation Area) Rogue River Siskiyou Coast Klamath 349, , 1972, 1984 Administratively established as a primitive area in 1930; administratively designated as wilderness on October 7, 1940, at approximately 216,250 acres. Later, 72,420 66,500 acres, respectively, were added. The 1972 addition, while a net gain, also resulted in 7,220 acres previously designated as wilderness being undesignated. The 1984 addition recovered 2,700 acres of the 7,220, thereby allowing Senator Hatfield to claim political credit for saving acres he had previously unsaved. The remaining 4,520 acres originally in the Eagle Cap Wilderness remain eligible for redesignation. 22, , 1984 Administratively established as a wild area on November 11, 1943, with approximately 18,709 acres. Later, 4,100 acres added. 17, , , 1984 Consists of 130,095 acres on the Wallowa-Whitman 1,038 acres on the Vale District of the BLM. Includes three units: West Face (109,149 acres), McGraw Creek (22,930 acres), Seven Devils, in Idaho. Also includes 83,811 acres in Idaho on the Nez Perce Payette s, for a total of 214,944 acres. In 1978, to facilitate construction of the Hells Canyon Rim Road, Congress at the behest of Rep. Al Ullman with the acquiescence of Senators Bob Packwood Mark Hatfield shrank the wilderness between P O Saddle Lookout Mountain. The original 1975 wilderness boundary was congruous with the Hells Canyon Scenic Area (an administrative classification replaced by the Hells Canyon Recreation Area Act of 1975), a line 1/4 mile west of the hydrologic divide between the Imnaha River Snake River drainages. Approximately 1,120 acres were lost from the wilderness when the boundary was moved. P.L (Nov. 10, 1978), 16 U.S.C., 460 gg. 179, , 1978a Administratively established as a wild area on September 10, 1946, at approximately 78,850 acres. Increased by 92,000 acres in Later in 1978, using a legislative rider to avoid public notice or hearing, Senator Hatfield The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 5

6 Lower White River Mark O. Hatfield Menagerie Middle Santiam Mill Creek Monument Rock Mount Jefferson Mount Thielsen Ochoco Malheur Deschutes,, s Deschutes, Umpqua, Fremont- Winema s 2, moved the wilderness boundary from the northern side of Bald Mountain, where it had protected a trail, to the southern side to allow construction of the Bald Mountain Road to allow de facto wilderness to the north to be logged. Approximately 102 acres were lost from the wilderness. P.L (Nov. 3, 1978), 16 U.S.C., 1132nt. 64, Originally, more properly, named the Columbia Wilderness (39,000 acres). Renamed in At least Hatfield is no longer in office. The main unit was exped by 13,841 acres a new Larch Mountain Unit of 12,106 acres was added in , , , , , , 1978a, 2009 Administratively established as a wild area on June 27, 1940, at approximately 14,160 acres. Approximately 33,000 acres added in In 2009 Congress added 7,527 acres to the (now) core unit added three detached units: Barlow Butte (1,972 acres), Twin Lakes (6,396 acres), White River (483 acres). Upon completion of a l exchange, 1,710 acres in the Tilly Jane area will be added to the wilderness. 107, , 1984 Administratively established as a primitive area in 1930 at approximately 100,208 acres. Later, 6,800 acres were added., 54, The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 6

7 Mount Washington Mountain Lakes North Fork John Day North Fork Umatilla Opal Creek Oregon Badls Oregon Isls Red Buttes Roaring River Rock Creek Deschutes, s Fremont- Winema Umatilla, Wallowa- Whitman s Umatilla Prineville District BLM Oregon Isls NWR Rogue River- Siskiyou Siuslaw, 52, , 1984 Administratively established as a wild area on Feb. 5, 1957, at approximately 46,655 acres. Later, 6,400 acres added. 23, Administratively established as a primitive area in 1930; administratively established as wilderness on July 19, , Includes four units: Upper North Fork John Day River (13,934 acres), Greenhorn (13,958 acres), Middle North Fork John Day River (86,197 acres), Tower Mountain (8,103 acres). 20, , Contiguous with the Bull-of-the-Woods Wilderness. Separately designated for political benefit. The total acreage includes 7,466 acres previously in the Bull of the Woods Wilderness, allowing Senator Hatfield to receive political credit for saving the same acreage twice. See note for Bull-of-the-Woods. Northern Basin Offshore , 1978b, 1996 Klamath 29, Upon completion of a l exchange, 279 acres will be added to the wilderness. This was originally named Oregon Isl Wilderness with just one unit, Oregon Isl near the California border, totaling approximately 21 acres. The name was changed in 1978 with the addition of approximately 70 more units of approximately 464 acres (the largest of the offshore Oregon Isls). Finally, more than 1,000 additional units (all the rocks, reefs, pinnacles above mean high tide) totaling approximately 95 acres were added to the wilderness. 3, Approximately 16,500 acres of wilderness adjoins the Red Buttes Wilderness on the Rogue River in California, increasing the total area protected to 20,250 acres. 36, Congress also established a 904-acre potential wilderness that will be added when human impacts have been adequately erased by nature. Coast 7, The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 7

8 Rogue- Umpqua Divide Salmon- Huckleberry Sky Lakes Soda Mountain Spring Basin Steens Mountain Strawberry Mountain Table Rock Three Arch Rocks Three Sisters Waldo Lake Wenaha- Tucannon Rogue River Siskiyou, Umpqua Fremont- Winema Medford District BLM (Cascade- Siskiyou Monument) Prineville District BLM Burns District BLM (Steens Mountain Cooperative Management Protection Area) Malheur Salem District BLM Three Arch Rocks NWR Deschutes, s Umatilla 33, , Originally established at 44,560 acres. Later, 16,260 acres were added, including the 2,192-acre Salmon River Meadows Unit the 4,257-acre Mirror Lake Unit. Upon completion of a l exchange, 160 acres will be added to the wilderness., 116, , Klamath Columbia Plateau Northern Basin 24, Includes two units: Pilot Rock (17,022 acres) Jenny Creek (6,873 acres). 6, Upon completion of three l exchanges, 2,887 acres will be added to the wilderness. 174, Includes five units: Alvord Peak (15,370 acres), High Steens (89,170 acres), Home Creek (20,740 acres), Little Blitzen (12,680 acres), Upper Fish Creek (31,980 acres). Livestock are expressly prohibited on 99,859 acres of the wilderness, making it the first explicitly livestock-free wilderness ever designated by Congress. 68, , 1984 Administratively established as a wild area on Feb. 9, 1942, at approximately 33,004 acres. Later, 35,300 acres were added. 5, Offshore , 286, , 1978a, 1984 Administratively established as a primitive area in 1937; administratively established as wilderness on Feb. 6, 1957, at approximately 196,708, acres. Later, 45,400 38,100 acres, respectively, were added. 39, Contiguous with the Three Sisters Wilderness. Separately designated for political benefit. 66, Approximately 111,048 acres adjoins the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness on the Umatilla in Washington, increasing the total area protected to 177,465 acres. The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 8

9 Wild Rogue Rogue River Siskiyou, Medford District BLM Klamath Total Oregon wilderness area acreage 2,457,473 Total Oregon acreage 10 62,163,840 Percentage of Oregon as wilderness 3.95% Total number of Oregon wilderness areas 47 35, Approximately 25,658 acres on the Siskiyou 10,160 acres on the Medford District of the BLM are protected. Potential Oregon Wilderness Areas Oregon wildls can be grouped as either generally forested (which includes rock ice above timberline) or generally tree-free (in the Oregon High Desert other desert areas considered part of the sagebrush steppe, a.k.a. the Sagebrush Sea). Unprotected wildls (de facto wilderness) of both sorts that qualify for inclusion in the Wilderness Preservation System cover a total of 12,090,098 acres. (In general, a proposed wilderness must be roadless undeveloped, but the area need not be pristine.) Figure 2. Wilderness designation is pending for Wasson Lake in the proposed Devils Staircase Wilderness. It may not happen in the 112 th Congress, but the area is in a political pipeline from which it cannot be extracted. It s just a matter of time. George Wuerthner Most of Oregon s designated wilderness is generally forested. Oregon Wild has inventoried 3,306,000 acres in 152 roadless areas greater than 5,000 acres in size. They have further inventoried 749 roadless areas between 1,000 4,999 acres in size. All meet the minimum eligibility requirements for designation as wilderness. 11 The unprotected wildls in Oregon s forests total 4,755,000 acres. Desert The only designated wilderness areas in Oregon desert ls are Steens Mountain, Spring Basin, Oregon Badls, totaling 210,457 acres. The Bureau of L Management has recognized 2,685,988 acres of Wilderness Study Areas. The Oregon Natural Desert Association has inventoried another 4,650,000 acres of BLM ls in eastern Oregon that qualify for designation as wilderness. 12 Unprotected desert wildls in Oregon total 7,335,988 acres. 10 T. Torgerson, ed., Oregon Book (Salem, OR: Oregon State Archives, 1999), Erik Fernez, Oregon Wild, personal communication, April 4, Craig Miller, Oregon Natural Desert Association, personal communication, March 31, The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 9

10 Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, trees in public parks. To say nothing of their values as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens parks of town. Conclusion John Muir Achieving designation as a wilderness area can literally take decades. However, once designated as wilderness by Congress, an area has the closest thing to permanent protection that exists. Much blood, toil, sweat, many tears have been expended to get the units in the Wilderness Preservation System that Oregon has today. More such expenditures are ongoing will always be. Congress should expeditiously exp the Wilderness Preservation System. Woe to them that join house to house; that lay field to field, till there is no room, that you may dwell alone in the midst of the earth. Acknowledgments Isaiah 5:8 My thanks especially to Erik Fernez of Oregon Wild Craig Miller of Oregon Natural Desert Association, who are the keepers of their organizations respective wildls inventories. Additional Resources Wilderness.net ( was created in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the Wilderness Institute at the University of Montana College for ry Conservation, the Arthur Carhart Wilderness Training Center, the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute. Oregon Wild ( is the premier forest wilderness organization in the state. Figure 3. Lower Rosary Lake, near the Pacific Crest Scenic Trail in the Maiden Peak Unit of the proposed Three Sisters Wilderness Additions, will someday be part of the Wilderness Preservation System. George Wuerthner Oregon Natural Desert Association ( is the premier desert wilderness organization in the state. Kerr, Andy. OREGON DESERT GUIDE: 70 HIKES. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, Kerr, Andy. OREGON WILD: ENDANGERED FOREST WILDERNESS. Portl, OR: Timber Press, The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 10

11 Kerr, Andy. LOP #1: Persuading Congress to Establish a Wilderness /or Wild & Scenic River: A Checklist. Ashl, OR: The Larch Company, Available at Kerr, Andy, Mark Salvo. LOP #7: Overlapping Wilderness Wild & Scenic River Designations Provide Maximal Conservation Protection for Federal Public Ls. Ashl, OR: The Larch Company, Available at Scott, Douglas W. THE ENDURING WILDERNESS: PROTECTING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS ACT. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, Wuerthner, George. OREGON WILDERNESS AREAS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE. Boulder, CO: Westcliffe Publishers, If we save all the roadless areas that are left as wilderness, in fifty years it won t be half enough. Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) (uttered first in 1975 on the edge of Hells Canyon repeated there again in 1986) Suggested Citation: Kerr, Andy The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better. Larch Occasional Paper #11. The Larch Company, Ashl, OR. (available at The Larch Company. Use is permitted in accordance with a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). See The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 11

12 Larch Occasional Papers A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature. The Larch Company issues papers on a variety of topics that may be downloaded at # Year Title Native American Tribal Ls Federal Public ls in Oregon An Overview of L Management for Oregon Federal Public Ls Under the Northwest Plan Wild Scenic Rivers State Scenic Waterways in Oregon Special Congressional Conservation Designations in Oregon: Some Better Than Others The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making it Bigger Better Oregon Washington Raw Log Exports: Exporting Jobs a Subsidy to Domestic Mills Pacific Northwest Offshore Oil Gas Potential: At Best About A Month s Supply; At Worse An Unnatural Disaster Small Wilderness: No Big Deal Overlapping Wilderness Wild & Scenic River Designations: Optimal Conservation Protection for Federal Public Ls Establishing a System of a Service for U.S. Deserts Grassls (co authored w/ Mark Salvo) Eliminating Service Regional Offices: Replacing Middle Management with More Onthe-Ground Restoration Service Administrative Appeals: A Misallocation of Resources Thinning Certain Oregon s to Restore Ecological Function Transferring Western Oregon Bureau of L Management s to the System Persuading Congress to Establish a Wilderness /or Wild & Scenic River: A Checklist While these papers are provided without charge, producing distributing them is not without cost. If you found this paper useful, please consider sending a check in the amount of what you think it was worth to you payable to The Larch Company, 7126 Highway 66, Ashl, OR Thank you. Dedicated to the conservation restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a nonmembership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk humans not yet born, A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature. The Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon: Making It Bigger Better Larch Occasional Paper #11 12

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