Excerpt from Illinois Wilderness Act of 1990 (S. 2948/H. R. 5428) And the Western North Carolina Wilderness Protection Act of 1990 (H. R. 5388): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress; October 25, 1990 In the two special management areas, S. 2948 would allow up to 20 years for mining of fluorspar and associated minerals. Eventual wilderness designation would not affect the existing private subsurface ownership, which totals about 780 acres. Conceivably, the owners of these minerals could elect to prospect or mine after wil derness designation. Although there has been no drilling, recent geologic information indicates that the Lusk Creek, Burden Falls, and Bay Creek areas also have high potential for un discovered resources of oil and natural gas. Currently, there are no leases in these areas. Wilderness designation would preclude issuing leases in the future. In summary, we support wilderness and special management area designations for the areas described in S. 2948. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.