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Show ft. Then we can publicize an integrated resource - not disembodied rivers! Then we can help develop wider support and nationally. Somehow, the intricacies of the CUP - and their explanation - tend to defeat sympathetic concern. We've got a national wild and scenic river inventory process underway with the Historic Conservation and Recreation Service. We have State laws against degradation of streams classified for game fish habitat and reproductive success. We need to be shouting at the top of our lungs that these wild rivers should be part of the magnificent High Uintas Wilderness Area. (My one beef with Fred is that he puts down other Deople's ideas, without any serious consideration of them. When I* suggested we zero in on stream classifications - I got immediately put down. I lived all my childhood with a father who did this and it is counterproductive!) IDAHO PEOPLE HAVE COORDINATED OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES UNDER A SIMPLE THEME - AND UNDER A CATCHY NAME - RIVER OF NO RETURN WILDERNESS. Conseauently, they can mollify disparate interests: Forest Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, State Fish & Game, Guides and Hunters and Fishermen, Wilderness Buffs and non-Wilderness proponents, kaykers and other River runners. AND IDAHO PEOPLE HAVE CONTINUOUSLY PUBLICIZED THIS ONE SIMPLE THEME - WHATEVER THE CONFLICT ISSUE. I think this is the direction we should be working toward. And, having said this, I am unwilling, yet, to "scale back" as Pete calls it. Even my husband thinks this is a mistake - having worked with groups and programs and people involvement for 22 years. You lose momentum, Friends.' And, as politicians say, "Momentum is everything!" I will pursue an initiative I've already made with some folk in Utah - along the lines of a broader water concern. Let me sound out these folk - without the bias of CUP, per se, in the picture. And, I'll get back to you. Pete, as a pretty good water project strategist, Please look at the CUP issue - not in the light of all that you peoole consider "water project" strategy. But look at it In the liP-ht of a successful conservation fight in the Rockies - even though it is on a different issue. If you do this, you might see options which can work in Utah - a State with special problems. I'm not exactly sure whether our problem is these special problems in this State or whetherTTTs that we haven't fijufeg out a particular strategy to offset them.. *. •ucst**'* ft*****/7 - Dorothy |
