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Show 4. Brent, since I'm asking a lot of questions here which require a lot of answers, if you want to talk into a tape, and answer me that way, I have a cassette player and could listen. I have worked this idea, out with other busy people. This way you just have a dialogue with me - we explore ideas - possibilities, ( and save long, letter writing discourses. Cu c«wo Ju^k^JL irL»y "6^L*_^ Issue #3 After the hearings at Ft. Duchesne on the Uintah Unit of the CUP, half a dozen farmers - ranchers,came up to me to explain that the Uinta River wasn't worth powder and sho anyway, since the Indians dried it up or chanelized it, or otherwise wrecked it. I said I would bring down toTalK to these people, some of the Trout Fly Fishermen. Well, I'm^side-tracked here in Wisconsin, now, for awhile, but the question I'm asking you is how can we reach the Uintah Basin people who don't want the ]36,000 acre feet of water transferred over to the Bonneville ' p Basin? They want the water for their own development purposes, U^J&k 6^*< of course, -Toil shale development, primarily. They are a wholly development oriented bunch - but have", legitimate claims on the Uinta Range stream water. I started to make inroads with a rancher in Duchesne County who fussed because the County had to pay for water it didn't receive. (There may be a suit started there now against the Water Conservancy District.) However, I get lost in all the issues one runs into on this water development picture. The ranchers want water for poor as well as for good lands - and the BuRec won't deal with this issue. If they want the project to go, then they have to get all the support for it t h e y c a n . ,5o -tAj-t, (LM..cuU? \4A*j"*a> \ 3>effe^*-/ OJU^^i^Jt^ T<w<Uw^ (Ui+JuJZ*rr~/f^t^U*J^ 3>^rt^urr. Each entity in the Uintah Basin - Indian and non-Indian Cw+AjvntLtf* has Its own need for and proposed use of Uinta Range stream water. NEW, HIGH QUALITY WATER FOR ALL PURPOSES! No modernized efficient reuse, recycling, elimination of poor soils from irrigation, etc. From all my wilderness and wildlife work in this region - I'm always the lone advocate at hearings there - amongst all the developers.!- they know who I am and really believe I'm supported by the Communists, I guess. However, they frequently do see-that I am a reasonable person and could ally with them on water issues - for the benefit of the Uintah Basin. So, what can I do there? (Never mind how, I'll figure that out.) You see we ought to be dividing County Commissioners in the Uintah Basin from the Salt Lake City bunch - divide and conquer, so to speak. But of course,then, I won't support damming the White River or widespread oil shale development at an enormous cost to wildlife values, etc. What's your thinking on this? (_Don't think in terms of my confinement to Wisconsin. This won't be permanent.) Our CRCUP Group ought to be developing some broad-based Utah strategy - not deal just with piece meal issues. The entire State will be dammed - river by river by river. It's on all the water development plans. We ought to be ahead of the game - not just reacting as developments take place. A/o |
