1.   Administration officials said they were doing better than the Clinton administration on the Chugach by recommending any wilderness designation.

2.   But state and local officials are vehemently resisting possible wilderness designations, which by law are limited to places without roads.

3.   But wilderness designation prohibits off-highway motor vehicles, snowmobiles, mountain bikes and hang gliders.

4.   County officials say it is a myth that their road claims are spurious, or that the road claims are intended to stave off wilderness designations.

5.   Federal wilderness designation offers perhaps the stingiest land-use restrictions.

6.   Ferguson cited another issue created by the wilderness designation.

7.   He is on record favoring wilderness designation for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

8.   It also proposed wilderness designation for part of another Alaskan forest, the Chugach.

9.   Second, it forecloses the possibility of future wilderness designations.

10.   To their distress, Mealey planned thinning in roadless areas that were proposed for wilderness designation.