Help preserve roadless areas

The Friends of the Clearwater and Idaho Conservation League need your help to speak up for wild places. Millions of acres of roadless areas are in the hands of western governors to protect or develop.

Adopt an area by visiting it, document your visit and raise awareness about special values or threats with the site. With more than nine million acres of undeveloped land in Idaho alone, you have plenty of unique places to choose from.

Pot Mountain Roadless Area is a roundish-shaped landscape lying like a huge inverted bowl with the North Fork of the Clearwater River at the bottom edge of the bowl.

Wetlands, waterfalls, a large pond, high lakes and about 50 tributaries, many of which start at the higher ridges, flow intothe North Fork. The river, mile after mile, charges the air with its fragrance and energy telling your ears, nose and skin a thousand stories abouthe myriad of places and beings these waters had touched. Let's retain this scene for posterity.

I believe we have an obligation to speak as powerfully for the bull trout and ancient trees that speak no louder as they are being annihilated than they do in health as we speak for our financial selves.

Fred W. Rabe

Moscow, ID

The Spokesman-Review