From KETK NBC.com
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 4:32am
Nacogdoches---
The Daily Sentinel is reporting; wilderness areas are specially designated tracts of the national forests.
The largest in Texas is called the Upland Island Wilderness and is located about an hour south of Nacogdoches.
Nearly three years of arguments over the Upland Island's management will conclude in a public meeting Oct. 20 in the Angelina National Forest supervisor's office in Lufkin.
For many years, the main point of contention in wilderness areas has had a philosophical and legal basis.
Some argued that the land should be left to natural processes and never managed. Others thought that natural processes, namely fire, had been eliminated and should be mimicked by human management. For nearly 40 years, the opponents of prescribed fire had their way. But if the Forest Service and various private conservation proponents finalize their agreement in Lufkin, that will change this winter.
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