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Show 3. The issue was as devastating as was that of the Bitterroot Forest logging on that National Forest in Montana. I became very judgmental of Universities for their lack of advocacy for the management of resources in which they really had a teaching stake. The Bolle Report came out and was significant, but it was needed earlier on. The natural world is the outdoor classroom for silviculture, wildlife management, aquatic and watershed resources, grazing, soil, surface restoration after strip-mining. In fact, the modern approach to man's use and development of the land has become an ecologic approach today. But in order to bring about this approach, in fact as well as theory, we need the involvement of the Universities in this aspect of our growth and development. We need the undergirding of the significance of wilderness, wildlife riverine ecosystems, and recreation by the development of a natural resource economics. Former Professor Joseph Horvath, working under Professor Power, is leading the way already laid down by John Krutilla, Resources for the Future. With the public demand today for recreation opportunities in the Rocky Mountain region, particularly, as also in Alaska, we need the Universities' variety of expertise taking a lead in the direction for determining the nation's use of its land. Else what is the purpose of man's intellectual development? In Utah, where there are enormously valuable wildlife habitat and recreation resources still remaining, and where there exists a State philosophy and policy of development of mineral,water and timber resources at all costs, I am appalled that the State Wildlife Federation, the State Fishery Wildlife Society, the Utah Wildlife Society, as well as University professionals will not find ways to stand up and be advocates of the preservation and/or protection of the very resources for which they exist. I believe we must begin to change the constraints which inhibit the necessary function of the University in this role. And it is most Important that this function take place in the regions where the issues are most critical today - the Rocky Mountains. As an addendum to this discussion, which it has proved to be, I also see a great need for developing an effective school of Environmental Journalism in this region. You may already have recognized this need. When I approached the Director of the School of Journalism, University of Wisconsin, about my providing resource development issues in the Rockies to classes, I was told there was only one class period during the second semester when an opportunity for this was available. And I had some 12^ possible issues to discuss I In other words, again, the regional introversion I have been bucking for years still persists in one of the nation's top Universities. I am aware that the University of Montana has an excellent Department of Forestry and Department of Environmental Sciences. I do not mean to judge, unfairly, in order to make my point. Dorothy Harvey Co-Chairman Citizens for a Responsible CUP |
