Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project: documents and correspondence, 1979

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resources in these areas. With all these environmental challenges, there Is no environmentalist in Utah concentrating on water issues. The Sierra Club members have their other specialties, the Wilderness Society has no time for water issues, and no other groups are yet effective environmentally. It has been my experience that regional represen­tatives of the major environmental groups are unable to effectively deal with the number of ,issues in Utah. I have asked Brent Blackwelder to help me to figure out a means whereby I could get some degree of funding to return to Utah as a full time activist in water issues. My husband had spinal surgery in September and he has just returned from the hospital and is only partially reoovered from the aftereffects on his arms, hands and legs. He is an Episcopal priest and would consider retiring under a Church disability provision as of being Age 65 (he is 62) if we could supplement what would be a retirement income of $5,000 - $6,000 per year. (You may not know that I found a means to support myself to remain in Utah all last year to work on wilderness, wildlife and the CUP issues. I had spent entire summers of 1973 and 1974 on the Uinta Range on roadless area field studies. So, I know staffs of Federal and State Agencies and wildlife issues for most of the State.) Last year I tried to get the Wilderness Society to raise funds for me to assemble wildlife information in northeast Utah and to develop support for habitat protection but the Wilderness Society was try^ing to fund Representatives for each State in the west. I was the lone wildlife advocate at a number of hearings in the State on development proposals. I wonder if you would have time to look over this CRCUP membership brochure I would like to use. CRCUP members in Utah may find it too "radical" for their purposes there, but we need to develop a national constituency which is more sophis­ticated and knowledgeable. The issues of the CUP are complex in design and impacts and I need to know how to deal effectively with these complexities in such a brochure. I don't know how to graph the statistics - which would make this information more readable. I know you are busy and would appreciate whatever advise you can give. If there is time, I would like to get this printed for the Dam Conference. Brent suggested I write the National Wildlife Federation and ask if they can help fund my travel expenses to Washington for me to testify at appropriations hearings and attend the Dam Conference. Brent funded my appearance last May for lobby^ing Congress to prevent them overriding a Presidential veto of water projects. CRCUP and Trout Unlimited can't fund other than Kinghorn and possibly Bill Geer.. although I will ask for some assistance. Please advise me of this possibility. I am CRCUP national co-chairman and, as liaison person between Utah and Washington, I need to get in on strategy planning. Too many of my CRCUP colleagues are still working at a level of trying to protect instream flows only, and Utah Lake marshes. Until you have lived in Utah, under conditions of a rapidly growing State, and its thinking, it is difficult to grasp the underlying issues. Please see if the National Wildlife Federation will sign the enclosed form to join our Coalition. Thanks. Dorothy Harvey