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Show f? Re: Violation of Federal Laws of the Forest Service and the BLM - i.e., the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960 - 4 by Bureau of Reclamation Water STorage Developments, to date, on the Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah Preliminary Conceptualization by Dorothy Harvey The State of Utah claims jurisdiction over land under the river, the river channel itself and the water flow = whether these cross Federal, State, or prifvate lands. The Bureau of Reclamation has an existing right (?) to withdraw Federal land and thereby claim the rights of ownership, for purposes of water storage development. Under the mandate of the Multiple Use - Sustained Yield Act of 1960 and the recent BLM Organic Act, both the Forest Service and the KXKM Bureau of Land Management are mandated to manage timber, watershed, grazing, recreation and wildlife Habitat resources. The term sustained yield has been interpreted and used and applidd to timber resources: it is my believe, and I doubt if this has been legally reinforced, that sustained yield applies to wildlife habitat as well. It appears to me that sustaining wildlife habitat is inherent in the management of the habitat. Wildlife habitat would include terrestraial, riparian, avian and aquatic environments. Riparian could include terres- X5&XX KMKXXX fcXHitXtfXXHXXXMXMKXftMXXXXMXX&XXHX trial habitat as well as avian. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CHALLENGE 0 F THE RIGHT TO ALTER WILDLIFE HABITAT ON PUBLIC LANDS, EVEN THOUGH HABITAT ALTERATION AND DEGRADATION IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVES OF BOTH LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES. |
