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Show 114 A "golden circle" of the National Park System was outlined Tuesday night by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall in possibly the first, last and only conference of its kind, held deep in the rugged canyons of the Green River .. Unique about Tuesday night's press conference was the time and place at which the historic session took place. Set in a bend of the Green River, amid rugged cliffs surrounding a pasture-like park, Anderson Bottom has been a mecca for river rurmcrs on the Green for years. Tuesday night, as reporters scribbled notes by flashlight, Sec. Udall and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman sat amid three members of Utah's congressional delegation and described the protected "golden circle" of parks and scenic monuments .. Far from their well-appointed offices in Washington ... Udall and Freeman sat on a simple plank bench as reporters perched on an aging picnic table - one of the few "conveniences" of this near-wilderness arca. 3 JJ Judging from the journalists' stories filed during the junket and in the weeks following, Udall had, for the most part, accomplished his goal of publicizing the proposed park.334 Journalists wrote of the "unmatched scenery" and a "history-making tour.',3 35 They crafted narratives of rafting down the Colorado River, hilting to Druid Arch, and taking in the view from a helicopter. However, National Parks magazine, while praising the scenery, ran critical commentary that was later quoted by the Deserer News and Salt Lake Telegram. It contended that the trip "seemed Jong on congressmen and newsboys and short on conservation leaders.'.336 The expedition's setting seemed to assuage the bitter opposition that had followed Udall's park proposal. Even Governor Clyde's anger, or at least news accounts about his m Koenig, '·Vasi Circle Outlined," Deseret News and Safi Lake Telegram, July 5, 1961. m Salt Lake Tribune reporter Frank Jensen called the 1rip a ·Junket." Sec Jensen, '·Udall Tour," Salt Lake Tribune, July4, 1961 . m lbid. 336 Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram, 'Journal HiL'i ' Omission,"' August 2, 1961. |
