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Show 15 the religious ideal of stewardship combined with community sentiment and the progressive conservation movement had the greatest positive influence on the partially successful attempts to preserve and restore a healthy environment in the Wasatch Oasis."33 As a prelude to this time of increased environmental concern, Utah's first national park, Zion, was designated in 1919. Unlike recent contentious proposals to give federal protection to land in Utah, the Zion proposal received little opposition. 34 Wayne K. I linton documented this feat of cooperation among the park service, landowners, elected officials, the Mormon church, locals, the railroads, and conservationists with diverse definitions of the word. Environmental concern was not the common draw for cooperation among these varied interests, although it played a role. Hinton showed how the common interest in improved roads, increased tourist traffic, and other economic factors were paramount to the park's reeognition. 35 By the late 1920s, the cooperation among these parties in Utah had weakened. Federal land management agencies were debating which agency should manage the land that is now known as Cedar Breaks National Monument. As the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service fought for control, they divided the mostly cohesive groups in Southern Utah. Grazing and logging were permitted on land under jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service but restricted under the park service. According to Western and H Ibid., 363. Wayne K. Hinton, '·Getting Along : The Significance of Cooperation in the Development of Zion National Park," Utah Hi~·/uricul Quarterly 68 (Fal\ 2000): 313-331. H Ibid., 318. Ranchers and farmers who worked inside the park showed little resistance when federal aud local officials asked them to stop grazing cattle and sell their land to the federal government. 31 |
