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After several years of study and public hear ings, BLM announced last winter 2.5 million of its 17.5 million acres of federally controlled land in Oregon qualified as wilderness study areas. BLM will be studying these areas for the next few years to determine if they should be included in the National Wilderness Preservation System. “The study phase is the real guts of the wilderness review,” said BLM representative Dan Bowman. “BLM has the opportunity and the responsibility to make reality of the multiple-use concept. “It’s impossible to accommodate all. The ranchers, representatives of mineral industries and other industries, off-road vehicles, recrea tionists and others who value wilderness all have different interests," Bowman said. “But it’s un fortunate that these different representatives have been polarized and find it difficult to com promise.” Two groups always at odds over the use of southeastern Oregon desert wilderness are the cattle ranchers and the conservationists. Cattle ranchers say they don't want to see the amount of grazing land diminished, while conservationists say they don’t want to see the natural ecosystem of the desert destroyed. Bowman said BLM now is conducting a series of Environmental Impact Statements on the effect of grazing on public lands. BLM has been accused of allowing overgrazing in southeast Oregon and now is taking steps to reduce it. But Bowman said ranchers are confusing the wilderness issue with the grazing issue. “There is no question wilderness areas will continue to be grazed," Bowman said, "but we cannot allow unlimited grazing in wilderness areas." Nevertheless, Bowman said cattle ranchers in eastern Oregon are "fiercely antagonistic” toward BLM and the wilderness review. "Wilderness advocates are going to have to contend with that every step of the way,” he said. "The position of the ranching community at large seems to be no wilderness, though the position of the wilderness advocates is not ‘no more cows.’ Bill Stevenson, a member of the Oregon Beef Council, said he doesn’t agree that desert lands have been overgrazed. "We think we were the original conserva tionists,” Stevenson said. “In my experience, if we overgraze, we’re out of business.” Stevenson said cattle ranchers wouldn’t be allowed to practice the most modern land-man agement techniques under wilderness status, and that could put many of the small family-owned ranches out of business. Andy Kerr of the Oregon Wilderness Coali tion said the ranchers should not be removing native vegetation to plant crested wheat-grass. "They're turning the natural ecosystem into a monoculture, erecting fences in public lands, and we’re subsidizing it,” Kerr said. "BLM continually puts out more money than it takes in at the expense of the taxpayers, you and me.” Bowman said in 1980 BLM’s grazing income was $2.2 million, while its range management and improvement expenditures were $3.7 million. “BLM is starting to exercise responsibility, and that’s going to cause changes,” Kerr said. “It’s the cattle industry who has the most to lose because they gained the most in the past.” This column is written by Planned Parenthood, 134 E. 13th, Eugene. Planned Parenth ood is a private, non-profit Unit ed Way agency providing comprehensive family planning services, pregnancy testing, education, information and referral. I've seen articles in the newspapers about a “human life statute" that Congress is considering. How does this sta tute differ from the human life amendment that is intended to outlaw abortion? The Human Life Statute, in troduced by Sens. 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