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Show JANUARY ON CAPITOL HILL 95 both House and Senate committees during the battle over Echo Park than David R. Brower, executive secre- tary of the Sierra Club. The club's headquarters were in San Francisco, and in the eyes of the crsp proponents this was a strike against it. Brower was the intellectual equal of any man on the House committee, and the superior of most. He possessed an extraordinary amount of technical information, and he had no hesitancy in speaking his mind.122 Deplorable is a mild word to describe what would happen to the scenery in Dinosaur, were we to permit these dams to be built there. If we should accept the amazing statement (of the Reclamation Bureau) that Echo Park Dam would not destroy Dinosaur, but would only alter Dinosaur, we should also accept such statements as these: 1 - A dam from El Capitan to Bridal Veil Fall would not destroy Yosemite, just alter it. 2 - Other dams would only alter Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Mammoth Caves National Park, Kings Canyon National Park. 3 - Removal of the rain forest would only alter Olym- pic National Park. 4 - Cutting the 3,000-year-old big trees and making them into grapestakes, which used to happen, would only alter Sequoia National Park. After all, the ground would still be there, and the sky, and the distant views. All you would have done is alter it, that is, take away its reason for being. Maybe "alter" isn't the word. Maybe we should just come out with it and say "cut the heart out." Brower went after the figures used by Under-secretary Tudor when Tudor had told the committee that re- moving Echo Park from the project would be like taking the engine out of the automobile. Brower recalled that |