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Article: INPUT SOUGHT ON PLAN FOR GIFFORD PINCHOT AREA.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- September 30, 1999
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The U.S. Forest Service is seeking the public's help to refine its plan to limit the number of hikers and horse riders camping in six popular wilderness areas of southern Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
The agency decided in April to cap overnight use in the wilderness at current levels through a permit system because of increasing damage to the environment.
``It's designed to the curb resource degradation going on, primarily a proliferation of campsites,'' said Kevin Cannon, wilderness coordinator at the Forest Service's Cowlitz Valley Ranger Station. ``The increase in the number of people over the past seven years has been about 2 ...