One metallic deposit is reported in the literature within the refuge boundaries, namely, a chromium prospect in an ultrabasic igneous rock. There are, however, many reported mineral occurrences adjacent to the refuge, such as copper, lead, zinc, silver, and gold ore bodies in sheared and broken rock; gold veins; manganese oxide and/or carbonate lenses in metasiliceous sediments; and chromium deposits. DESOLATION VALLEY WILDLIFE AREA, EL DORADO COUNTY, CALIF. No metallic deposits are known to exist in the Jurassic and Triassic metavolcanics, Jurassic basic and acid igneous rocks found in this wildlife area. EMIGRANT BASIN WILD AREA, TUOLUMNE COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in northern Tuolumne County in the Sierra Nevadas. Most is unmapped geologically, but is probably underlain by metasediments, Jurassic granitic intrusives, and Tertiary volcanics. No metallic deposits are reported from this area in the available published data. MOUNT DANA MINARETS WILD AREA, MADERA AND MONO COUNTIES, CALIF. This area is located in northeastern Madera and southwestern Mono Counties in the Sierra Nevadas on the western part and the Basin and Range province on the eastern part. According to available published data, a number of metallic deposits occur within or immediately adjacent to this area in a continuation of these same rock units: two gold and silver veins; seven lead-zinc occurrences as limestone replacements; four silver deposits; five copper deposits in veins or limestone replacements; one nickel deposit; and one iron deposit which contains an inferred 5 million tons grading approximately 60 percent iron. VENTANA WILD AREA, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIF. The acid igneous rocks and Paleozoic and Mesozoic metasediments in the wild area located in western Monterey County in the southern coast ranges are not noted for their metallic mineral deposits. SAN RAFAEL WILD AREA, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in east central Santa Barbara County in the southern coast ranges. It is underlain by Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments. According to available data, no metallic deposits are known to occur in this There are, however, a number of adjacent occurrences, including copper, gold, silver, manganese, and/or chrome deposits. area. SESPE WILDLIFE AREA, VENTURA COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in central Ventura County in the transverse ranges. It is underlain by Cenezoic sediments and granitic igneous rocks. According to available published data, no metallic deposits are known to occur in this area. HIGH SIERRA WILDERNESS AREA, FRESNO, MONO, INYO COUNTIES, CALIF. This area is located in northeastern Fresno, southwestern Mono, and northwestern Inyo Counties in the Sierra Nevadas. It is underlain by metasediments and Jurassic igneous rocks. According to available published data, a number of metallic deposits occur in this area including one copper deposit; two copper, gold, silver deposits; two tungsten deposits; one silver deposit; and one lead deposit. MINERAL KING GAME REFUGE, TULARE COUNTY, CALIF. This refuge, located in northeastern Tulare County in the Sierra Nevadas, is underlain by meta sediments and Jurassic acid intrusives. According to available published data, two copper-lead-zinc deposits occur along granite contacts. ANCIENT BRISTLE CONE PINE AREA, MONO AND INYO COUNTIES, CALIF. This area is located in southern Mono and northern Inyo Counties in the Basin-Range province. It is underlain by pre-Cambrian metamorphics, Cambrian sediments, and granitic igneous rocks. Published records mention a number of metallic deposits: a lead deposit; two silver deposits; one gold-silver deposit; and two lead-zinc deposits. These occur as viens and as replacement bodies on granite contacts. DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT, INYO AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES, CALIF. This monument is located in Inyo County with a small part in San Bernadino County, in the Basin-Range province. It is underlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sediments intruded by Jurassic and younger igneous rocks and partially covered by Quaternary alluvium. A large number of metallic and nometallic deposits occur in the monument including copper, lead, zinc, silver, gold, and manganese. Most deposits occur as viens, disseminations or limestone-granite contact replacement bodies. INDIANA SUMMIT NATIONAL AREA, MONO COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in southwestern Mono County in the Basin-Range province. It is underlain mainly by Tertiary rhyolites. According to available published data, metallic mineral deposits are yet to be found there. DEVILS CANYON-BEAR CANYON WILD AREA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in east central Los Angeles County, in the transverse ranges. It is underlain mainly by pre-Cretaceous metamorphics intruded by acid igneous rocks. No metallic deposits are known within the boundaries, although within as short a distance as 10 miles a number of copper, silver, gold, and iron occurrences are known, mainly as vien deposits or magmatic segregations. The region seems far from fully explored. CUCAMONGA WILD AREA, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in southwestern San Bernardino County, in the transverse ranges. It is underlain by older pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks. No occurrences of metallic deposits are known according to available publication. SAN GORGONIO WILD AREA, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in southwestern San Bernardino County, in the transverse ranges. It is underlain by pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks cut by acid intrusive igeneous rocks. No occurrences of metallic deposits are known in the area, according to available publications. SAN JACINTO WILD AREA, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in western Riverside County in the peninsular ranges. It is underlain by Jurassic acid igneous rocks. Metallic deposits have not been recorded in the area. BLACK MOUNTAIN SCENIC AREA, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIF. This area is located in western Riverside County in the peninsular ranges. It is underlain by Jurassic acid igneous rocks. Metallic deposits are not known in the area, according to available publications. GAME REFUGE 4-G, RIVERSIDE, COUNTY, CALIF. This refuge is located in western Riverside County in the peninsular ranges. It is underlain by Jurassic acid igneous rocks. No metallic deposits are known to occur in the area according to available publications. 77350-62-pt. 3- -4 JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT, SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES, CALIF. This national monument is located in southern San Bernardino and north central Riverside Counties, in the Mohave Desert. Rocks exposed in the area include pre-Cambrian metamorphics, Paleozoic sediments and metasediments, Jurassic acid igneous intrusives, and Quaternary alluvium. This area contains mineral deposits of various types; veins of gold and silver; veins of copper; lenses of copper, gold, lead, silver, and zinc along quartzitediorite contacts; and magnetite-hematite in skarn environment. The most important producer is the Eagle Mountain iron property of the Kaiser Steel Co. An inferred reserve of almost 50 million tons of magnneite-hematite ore is available. Also of importance is a zinc producer which has mined more than 1 million tons. AGUA TABIA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS AREA, SAN DIEGO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES, CALIF. This area is located in northern San Diego and southwestern Riverside Counties in the peninsular ranges. Exposed are metamorphic rocks and Jurassic acid igneous intrusives. No metallic deposits are known to occur in this area. GAME REFUGE 4-8, SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES, CALIF. This refuge is located in northern San Bernardino and west central Riverside County, in the Colorado desert. Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks, Quarternary alluvium, and Quaternary terrace deposits are exposed. No metallic deposits are known to occur in this area, according to available publications. JARBIDGE WILD AREA, ELKO COUNTY, NEV. Past mining activity in the Jarbidge area has consisted of gold production from veins intrusive into Tertiary volcanics. Base metals mineralization occurs in exposures of pre-Tertiary rocks. West of Jarbidge are Laramide intrusives. Associated with these intrusives are contact metamorphic deposits showing copper and lesser amounts of lead and zinc. Where the pre-Tertiary rocks are exposed they appear to be mineralized with a variety of metallic elements. As a consequence all of the pre-Tertiary terrain in and around Jarbidge is prospective. SUMMARY.-Acreages of wilderness, wild, and primitive areas in Arizona, California, Nevada 1 SUMMARY.-Wilderness, wild, primitive area acreage in Arizona, California, Nevada, by type and name WILDERNESS 1 Mrs. PrOST. Thank you very much. Are there questions? If not, our next witness is Mr. Howard R. Leach, president of the Sacramento Audubon Society, Sacramento, Calif. And will Mr. Harvey McGee come forward, please. STATEMENT OF HOWARD R. LEACH, PRESIDENT, SACRAMENTO AUDUBON SOCIETY Mr. LEACH. Madam Chairman, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Howard R. Leach, and I am president of the Sacramento Audubon Society. I have a brief statement to make favoring the passage of the wilderness bill, S. 174. This has the endorsement of the National Audubon Society. That is the statement. The Sacramento Audubon Society urges the House of Representatives take immediate action on the wilderness bill as passed by the U.S. Senate (S. 174) and establish once and for all a criteria for establishment of a wilderness system. We believe Congress must meet this responsibility of securing for all of America's people-both present and future generations-a fragment of the priceless heritage to which this country owes its greatness. What little wilderness remains today must be preserved in its present-day use and protected against economic exploitation. If this is not done, we in our generation will witness the destruction and desecration of the few areas on this earth where man can now seek spiritual as well as moral rehabilitation without interference from his fellow man. Thank you. Mrs. Prost. Thank you, Mr. Leach. Are there questions? If not, our next witness is Mr. Harvey C. McGee, publisher of the Sonora Daily Union Democrat, Sonora, Calif. And will Mr. E. P. Ivory please come to the front of the room. You may proceed, Mr. McGee. STATEMENT OF HARVEY C. MCGEE, PUBLISHER, SONORA DAILY UNION DEMOCRAT, SONORA, CALIF. Mr. MCGEE. Madam Chairman and committee members, I represent no group but am merely a resident of an area adjacent to a primitive area, Tuolumne County, Calif. Nowhere is there wider support for the preservation of the primitive aspects of certain public lands than in the communities adjacent to these lands. In Tuolumne County, Calif., the Emigrant aBsin Primitive Area of the Stanislaus National Forest is best known and most visited by residents of the county itself. Yet it remains most doubtful that those same people would lend their unqualified support to S. 174, the bill to create a Federal wilderness system and the measure under discussion in congressional subcommittee hearing in Sacramento today. For the wilderness bill is both backward and negative. Amendments in the original version have eliminated some of the most glaring drawbacks, but several objectionable features remain. It remains backward because it still provides "all areas within the national forests classified on the effective date of this act as wilderness, wild, primitive, or canoe shall be included in the wilderness system." The Secretary of Agriculture is given 15 years to review "the suitability of each primitive area for preservation as wilderness" and report |