He says the ski operator's 10-year battle to get approval for such limited uses as selective logging and construction of a snow-making pond made it clear that the state's purpose was to ban all use and preserve an untouched bear habitat. At any elevation in the mountainous area, called Parker's Gore East, state officials found features indispensable to the bears, Mr. Urso says - whether wetlands, nut-producing beech trees, or undisturbed travel corridors.