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Show Dorothy Harvey, wife of an Episcopal priest in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has spent every summer from 1971-1978 working on public lands management issues in the Rocky Mountain states, Nevada, Idaho and Utah. With the exception of the first three summers and the entire 1977-1978 year spent in Utah, this work has been largely supported by Mrs. Harvey and her (long suffering) husband. Mrs. Harvey's interest in wilderness, wildlife, and recreation enjoyment in public lands stemmed from a curt directive from a National Park Ranger in Grand Teton Park, Smokey Beap hat and all, to leave a Park campsite and give other folk opportunity to enjoy it. He was right! She had explored the entire Range for ten years and loved every nook and cranny! This command coincided with a Sierra Club appeal in 1971 for volunteers to study National Forest roadless areas for wilderness classification. This began a personal Odyssey into wild lands with trails and no trails; across turbulent streams with no bridges; through rain, sleet, hail and snow; into encounters with bull moose, an inquisitive cougar, grizzly and black bear, an entire herd of startled elk, an angry goshawk, curious beaver, and lonely Basque sheepherders. The wilderness studies were accomplished with field trip help from college professors and their children, her children, from school teachers, from Sierra Club members, from a "resident" of a University of Illinois commune, and from Forest Service and BLM staff - on their days off. An Idaho field trip she led was a disaster - its only redeeming feature the physical and spiritual courage of the commune "hippie" in pulling the party through a 24 "lost in the wilderness" ordeal! Much of the 400,000 acres of roadless area around the High Uintas Primitive Area was studied by Mrs. Harvey, alone. The Odyssey extended to University staffs and to State and Federal Agency beauracracies where the "black hats" disguised battling, dedicated wildlife and fisheries biologists, wildlife habitat and timber "indicator species" researchers, ornithologists, botanists, ecologists, hydrologists, Range supervisors, recreation chiefs. As Mrs. Harvey's interests broadened into terrestrial and aquatic habitats, into BLM Multiple Use/wilderness management struggles, into destruction of 9 Uinta Range rivers from the Central Utah Project development - she found her interest sparked response and assistance in assembling information for all kinds of regional biota from Agency staffs. The technical information covering every variety of Rocky Mountain land and water ecosystem became her tools as the era of development and preservation in the region intensified. The role of the individual advocate is inadequate; the role of mediator between Agency -and conservationist "fragile" .Staying in Utah (1977-1978) with help of friends, relatives, strangers, Mrs. Harvey helped formulate a citizen's High Uintas Wilderness Proposal and Coalition with the Wilderness Society Rep,, Dick Carter, and Margaret Pettis; Citizens for a Responsible CUP with Utah Chapters of Trout Unlimited, Federation of Fly Fishermen, Audubon Society, Fishery Society, and able help from Brian Beard, Sierra Club State Chairman; Colorado River Basin Coalition at the 1979 National Dam Conference in Washington with EPC, EDF, NWF, NAS, ARCC and other groups. With her husband disabled after spinal surgery (9/79) Mrs. Harvey has continued working on Utah and Idaho environmental issues, meanwhile, in Wisconsin. |
