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...residents who disagree is Author Sigurd Olson, 79, author of The Singing Wilderness and The Hidden Forest. A trim, white-haired outdoorsman, he has been fighting for six decades to keep the BWCA free of mechanized intrusion. Says he: "Motors of any kind are a violation of wilderness values...
...efforts of environmentalists, the BWCA has long been roiled by Evinrudes and Johnsons. Even after it was included in the 1964 National Wilderness Preservation Act-making it by far the largest region of its kind east of the Rockies-logging and motorboating continued under an amendment sponsored by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey. But lumbering has since been voluntarily suspended and will be permanently outlawed under legislation slowly making its way through the political thickets of Capitol Hill. So environmentalists are now concentrating their ire on the remaining target: motorized recreational vehicles...
...cosponsor, Representative Donald M. Fraser, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Muriel Humphrey. But they are also annoyed by Minnesota's other U.S. Senator, Wendell R. Anderson. He had been counted on to champion fewer restrictions in the BWCA, but recently threw his support behind a tougher compromise bill, scheduled for a Senate vote this month, that also cuts back on the use of motorized vehicles...
Forester Miron Heinselman replies that if motorized vehicles are permitted, the BWCA will no longer be a true wilderness: "Solitude and silence are the essence of it." Janet Green, an ornithologist from Duluth, says that the noise of a motor there is like screaming in church, almost a profanation...
...partisans on either side are willing to budge. The other weekend 300 local residents blocked access roads to the BWCA with cars and pickup trucks. "Our vacation is rather ruined," complained one frustrated canoeist. Retorted a protester: "Our lives are rather ruined...