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Show r 3. I have contacts with at least 100 State and Federal Agency staff people on water, wildlife and recreation issues, primarily. I work well with the Wilderness Soc, the Sierra Club, Canyon Country Council, Utah Nature Group, etc. I had only begun to get involved in helping Gerry Kinghorn in pushing the State toward State water management systems. And, I could still work as part of CRCUP.* I also know most areas of the State personally. Bureau of Land Management staff have taken me over much of northeast Utah. I have hiked or driven over most of the Uinta Range. Last spring, en route home from a Water Law Symposium in Albuquerque, I investigated the Canyon Country north of the San Juan River. At Easter I canoed the Green River almost to the confluence with the Colorado. A BLM Assistant Director drove me to different points along the White River and I provided the information for a hearing in June of 1977 to environmental groups. U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service flew me over the White and Green Rivers last summer (1977). I have worked with U.S.Fish & Wildlife Staffs on Rare and Endangered Species in the Green, White, Colorado and Virgin Rivers. State Div. Wildlife Resources wildlife biologists have driven me over much of the oil shale area and the Book Cliffs. I have had detailed discussions on stream ecosystems and fisheries with Forest Service; BLM^and U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service In.-Stream Flow Group ( Ft. Collins), and have reports on these issues from this Group as well as from U.S.G.S hydrologic team in Denver, m lrliv+Aj*s "SIVIN^ - I had just begun to get involved in the Water Quality Program with Gerry Kinghorn when I had to leave Utah last summer. Last week Guy Martin sent me a packet of reports and Agency proposals for Implementing the Water Policy which is invaluable as a base for action. When I worked with Dick Carter, Wilderness Rep. in Salt Lake City, Utah, last year, I tried to get funded by the Wilderness Society to gather information on wildlife in northeast Utah and develop a constituency to protect habitat areas. This didn't succeed because the Wilderness Society had to fund Reps in all the western states, first. However, Dick and I discussed the need for sharing office space as a center for environmental action in the State. We would share strategy planning X ^ jt I prepared a proposal to attend an action training program fr0m the Saul Alinsky Industrial Areas Institute this month but couldn't raise the $1,200 tuition. The Episcopal Church is not social action oriented and since I'm not in Utah, I didn't believe TU or the Fed. of Fly .^v». K AA/, ,. jj^ , Fishermen would fund my training. k !C^ Lc^ "h * What do you see are opportunities for working Jr u^ V* out such an effort? "'l r"^ * x worked with Dick Carter last fall (1977) on State . Wilderness Committees, hearings, Conflict; Resolution yw ,\JJA* Conferences, and meetings with legislators and Agencies. |
