An Inclusive Litany

8/22/94

After a 14-year-old Boy Scout became separated from his party and was lost in the New Mexican wilderness for two days, a search helicopter finally spotted him. The Forest Service was asked permission to land and rescue the youth. Permission was refused, on the grounds that "mechanized vehicles" are banned from wilderness areas and that a life-and-death situation did not exist. The boy spent another night alone in the wilderness before the Forest Service changed its decision.