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Show Brown's Park, oil shale development, dam on the White River, wildlife resources on public lands in northeast Utah, etc. They are all tied in v/ith legitimizing Indian jurisdiction over wildlife and fish in former tribal boundaries. As I see it. Utah and the Bureau of Rec. are so compromised now with legislation and Carter V/ater Policy Directives to implement his Water Policy and EPA requirements for non-degradation of streams and to identify National Resource Waters, etc., that they have to come up with some gimmick whereby they can circumvent all these restrictions. It has been important for me that I have contact with Washington groups if I am to continue working on the CUP. My CRCUP group in Utah has been floundering and has not been effective in actively developing an opposition in Utah. I understand the reasons - living in Wisconsin where thinking and acting are relatively "free" and "open" for discussion of issues - it is apparent the difficulty my Utah friends work under. Even Hartt Wixom Is not wholeheartedly in support of stopping the CUP. He thinks it is needed for certain purposes. He also supports Steve Boyden, attorney for the Ute Tribe, who is responsible for convincing the Utes to accept the CUP and for suggesting they have jurisdiction over fish and wildlife on all former boundary lands. So, I have to be careful how I work with my own group in Utah. I had to call David Freed the other day to ask him where were the loyalties of Dr. Harold Lamb. Lamb does some work for Utah Power and Light. Some of my friends - have warned me about trusting Lamb - yet Wixom, Freed and Lamb have been pursuing instream flow issues with and through the Governor. What I am saying is that it is unfortunate we could not have had longer time to organize our CRCUP group before I had to leave Utah: to agree upon and establish goals for the group; to develop short term and long term strategy. The irresolution of these matters handicap the group's effectiveness. Nevertheless, the group exists and is pulling in broader membership and seems now to be recognizing the real issues. I keep passing along the insight of Blackwelder in Washington who is taking the lead of environmental groups in the water development issues - so we have a tie-in between Utah and Washington on our activities » Brent wants me to come, with others from Utah, to hearings on appropriations April 2 - 1 2 , in Washington. Professor Power, who made the Bonneville Unit Economic Analysis^would go. However, my Utah group tells me they have no money to send people. This is a pityand is short-sighted. This is why Utah CUP never gets exposed! I'm presently comtemplating asking National Wild-; life Federation for help for me and Robert Redford for help for someone from Utah. Maybe even himself. Kapairowitz coal is to be developed by IPP and U P & L. I really need to go to this hearing and to the environmentalists' conference on dam projects held in Washington the same time. I am just sick about it. Environmentalists have brought suit on the Central Arizona Project and the taxpayers' revolt stopped the Bureau in |
