OK, I'll bite. I think that wilderness designation will close an area to all motorized vehicles, mountain bikes, hang gliders, etc. It should stop any construction of any kind, and might make it difficult to maintain summit registers on summits. It would probably make some things crimes that were not, before. I would expect to see signs going up on wilderness boundaries, especially on obscure jeep roads. Hopefully it will serve as an obstacle to any sort of future encroachment of "civilization" on what are now wild lands.What is it, exactly, that you want to do on these lands that you won't be able to do if they are designated wilderness? Where, exactly, is it that you drive/ride now that will somehow be "closed"? Is there something specific, or is it just sort of a general opposition to the concept?
I base this on what I have heard and seen over the years - no particular single source of information.
I am fond of all the wild places around Benton - northern whites, adobe valley, glass mountain... I have some mixed feelings about not being able to drive my 4x4 up some of the faint jeep trails, having summit registers removed by rangers, etc., but I definitely like the idea of making it wilderness - sort of a general disposition in favor of the concept.
Perhaps it would help if you told us what you think anybody will not be able to do after wilderness designation that they were able to do before ??? What will wilderness designation protect the wilderness against? Why should we bother to support it if it won't stop people from doing what they are doing now?