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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project '-aard of Director* Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson r^ed Reimherr, co-chairperson B^h Duncan Privid Freed X.jr! Heidenreich 'e'er Hovingh David littlefield [)dve McC'ormick :;a.'bara Polich I J mes 1 alley r U ' t ! VVixom Supporting Organualiom »U!tn Council. 7rout Unlimited > ^ x x y Mounlian Council of Ihe Federation of Fly Fishermen Bftah Member Clubs of the federation of Fly Fishermen •Stowefly Society of the Wastach Salt Lake Ciry, Utah * Order ol the Royal Coachman Pleasant Crove Utah - U ' a h Audubon 1115 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 51220 January 30, 1979 Richard Solberg, Dean College of Arts and Sciences University of Montana Missoula, Montana 59801 Dear Dean Solberg: I am writing this letter as Co-Chairman of a Utah-based coalition, Citizens for a Responsible CUP. I stayed in Utah all last year, raising funds to do this, and helped form this group for purposes of trying to stop this environmentally disastrous and economically non-feasible CUP water development. My husband, an Episcopal clergymen, has supported my previous summer field work efforts on National Forests in trying to protect and upgrade management of wilderness and wildlife resources in the Rocky Mountain region. I am writing you to inform you of the great necessity and importance of University research in supporting efforts of the public in bringing about responsible management of public resources by the Agencies. I have documented statements I have presented at hearings on all kinds of developments highway, mineral, logging, and water - from research on wildlife habitat, instream flows and river ecosystems, and on the economics of oil shale and phosphate ore mining. I have literally picked the brains of the professional at Universities in Idaho and in Utah to support my public efforts to bring about land and resource use planning. I can go the political route - where the professional may not be able. The most effective use I and my CRCUP group has made of this professional research, surprisingly enough to me, has been the timely availability of an "Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit, CUP" by Professor Thomas Power at the University of Montana. For eight months last year I continued to confront the Secretary of Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation with documented impacts on irreplaceable natural wildife and recreation resources. This really got nowhere. It hadn't before. It is not the arena in Washington in which v/ater development projects are stopped. Costs .. taxes., and the Federal budget are the effective tools today. When CRCUP members learned about the Draft Economic Analysis of Professor Power, we saw a handle not heretofore available for Utah residents. Water developers had created a wall of silence in preventing open discussion of environmental and cost issues about the CUP and an effective P.R. effort had pursuaded most Utah residents that this water |
