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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Board of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson f red Reimherr, co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Karl Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David Littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames Talley Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations •Utah Council. Trout Unlimited •Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt Lake City. Utah •Order of the Royal Coachman Pleasant C.rove. Utah •Utah Audubon 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 January 5, 1978 Benjamin C. Bradlee Executive Editor The Washington, Post 1150 15th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 2.0071 Dear Mr. Bradlee: While this letter oomes to you from Wisconsin, it relates to a water development issue in Utah where I stayed all last year in order to get some handle on it. I have spent the last 7 years during summers working in the Rocky Mountain region working on issues of management of public resources on public lands. I spent two entire summers hiking all over the Uinta Range in northeast Utah to help determine the classification of a High Uintas Wilderness. Last fall, the Forest Service was undertaking a second go-'round at evaluating roadless areas and I remained in Utah to work with the Wilderness Society on the Uintas as the citizen expert. The entire lower slopes of the Uintas outside any wilderness boundary proposal, will be impacted by development of the Central Utah Project. Portions of all wild streams valuable for fly fishing, kayaking and wildlife associated with their ecosystems will be completely dewatered, or their resources effectively diminished - even though these resources belong to the nation - in providing federally developed water for Utah's exclusive development. In July, I worked with fly fishermen in forming a Citizens for a Responsible CUP group to see what could be done in Utah to provide the real facts and issues. Since Utah's elected representatives have consistently stated that Utah cannot survive or develop without federally developed water $ have cooperated in silencing the media in the State in discussing both cost and environmental issues of the CUP/ have downplayed the significance of recreation and wildlife resources belonging to the nation^ have ignored available water supply resources for State management at cheaper cost; and, since the Bureau of Reclamation has based its economic justification of the CUP on a "Rube Goldberg" water development involving an entire mountain Range and from "borrowing" Ute Indian water - our CRCUP group put together an Issues Paper #1 to explain the real facts. This was our first order of business. Our Issues Paper, included here, contains an independent Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit ,t CUP, by University of Montana's Professor Thomas Power, |
