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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project 727 6th Avenue,, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8*1103 Hirsey, co-ctvtifprrton r-rtfit ( o-« fv. 1 r-pn •>!->/> •< *r> • •rgh j O. n » u i ttomt ^,n< >1 IfOul X^rtUrmted V)«nii«n Cuunol ol tKe •on ot Ft> Fithrrmffl rTit>»f Club* o« ihe UA Ot fiy f iihrrmm •>" liht Cif> Li*h I4i»5 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 5*1220 May 3, 1979 Thomas L. Kimball Executive Vice President National Wildlife Federation 1412 16th St., N.W. Washington, D.C, 20036 Dear Mr. Kimball: My name is Dorothy Harvey. I have worked in Utah all last year on Central Utah Project issues and I am writing this letter as a follow-up to a meeting we were unable to arrange while I was in Washington recently testifying at Appropriations hearings on water projects and attending the National Dam Conference. I am writing you to request a grant to enable me to return to Utah to continue work I consider important and even necessary in helping determine the whole issue of the degree of need for the CUP. As a basis for a grant, I would like to make a proposal for a project which the National Wildlife Federation might recognize as a worthwhile need for them in helping resolve wildlife issues in the CUP development.In order to assist the Federation In this decision, I believe that impacts from the water development need to be understood within the larger framework of the significance of the Uinta Range for its wildlife resources, particularly in a perspective of impending industrialization of northeast Utah and southern Wyoming. I shall therefore provide a broad background which I see from working on other public lands* issues in northeast Utah since 1973. I will make a specific proposal, which of course can be modified, and set forth a framework for developing the project. I will discuss the issue of mitigation and propose criteria. In addition, I will present a resume of my activities in the Rocky Mountain region since 1971 during the summers. and present for the Uint nically, is Use Plans, I of Multiple Environmenta sidered an o Use Plan and The general participate To date, there has been no attempt to prepare to the public a wildlife report or survey, per se, a Range. The only attention this issue gets, tech-from periodic releases of Forest Service Land n which wildlife is considered only as a part Use Management, or from Bureau of Reclamation 1 Impact Statements, in which wildlife is conn- site resource which will be impacted. The Land the EIS Is the measure of the value and the action! public, particulary that public which does not in Agency reviews, is informed only about separated |
