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Show conflicts with wildlife on a basis of "picking up the pieces". And, excepting for the Uintas, we keep approaching the day when according to a regional director of the State Division of Wildlife Resources, "Game Farms will replace the natural wildlife order . THE CUP It is within this perspective of ongoing changes arid responses of the managing Agencies, and a look into the future at the "role of the Uinta Range oasis", that I see the need to evaluate CUP Impacts. Without some type comprehensive wildlife resource presentation - In some regional growth perspective -" a n d adequate impact evaluation. I believe that the magnitude of resource losses contributed by the Central. Utah Project will not n?e?i le 1 °n e C U P reservoir replacing one mountain stream is a limited view. In a State where half the trout streams are now already lost,and where mountain trout streams are rare the replacement of portions of 10 to 22 with additional reservoirs on a mountain range already supplied with some 500 lakes, is a real value measurement. With some figures which indicate what proportion of the 40,000 to 60,000 annual visitors to the Uintas are • Ily fishermen, an added value measurement is obtainable. - -v. o With m o o s e Population increasing as moose move over to the South Slopes where existing stream bottom habitat is available to provide this Increase; and, with greater hunter demand for moose than available animal, the position taken by< i^e m?o!^t h a tA°n 1^? m ° 0 3 e W i l 1 b e lost to a Project development is misleading. A public not understanding can say "What's 9 moose?" With its System by System, Unit by Unit, piece meal approach to resource-losses combined with careful avoidance of any indication that it is a land area's productivity*which is lost, the uncritical public, has no adequate basis for decision. The real nature of impacts is disguised. And, even as the Forest „ei7ic5 a c c ePt s the gradual attrition of certain species on the i!},** ?6 a s lnevltable, from a Multiple Use management view, a ^ °n a attrition of remaining wildlife resources from the CUP will be similarly regarded. Necessary In., to r ^ r a 0 0 ' Although Congressman McKay and Legislative and Administrative Aides to Senators Garn and Hatch denied to me in recent meetings with them in Washington, that water supply and management alternatives to CUP exist in Salt Lake County, these are being proposed now at public meetings and hearings. Earlier concepts that only unlimited supplies of new, high quality stream water from the Uinta Range will supply Utah needs for growth and development will necessarily give 'way to contemporary water management. Recent actions of west/southwest Utah water suppliers and their farmer stockholders in selling ^40,000 acre feet of their water to Intermountain Power Project, contradict the purpose on which the magnitude of the Bonneville Unit was justified - that of supplying needed irrigation water, primarily, via a transbasin diversion of Uinta Range South Slopes streams. • Whatever the CUP outcome, responsibilities rest *See later discussion on Mitigation. |
