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Show 132 Utah upholds the conservation policy, and that Sen. (Wallace F.) Bennett doesn't speak for Utah in his criticism of my department and what we arc trying to do.'.J 99 Most news related to environmental concern in Canyonlands came when conservation organizations testified during Senate hearings. Michael Nadel from the Wilderness Society was quoted in The Salt lake Tribune urging that the Canyonlands mission include habitat protection. "We urge the establishment of a Canyon lands National Park that like other national parks will be maintained as a sancruary for wildlife as well as for its scenic splendor.'"'00 Nadel also criticized the zealousness with which the National Park Service built roads through environmentally sensitive areas. Anthony W. Smith of the National Parks Association attacked any provision in the Canyonlands bill that would allow hunting: "We have this senseless slaughter in national forests; let us not permit it in parks.',4oi Still, few voices represented the position calling for environmental protection to extend beyond scenery. These voices were generally buried near the end of stories in local and national news. The Utah State Advisory Board of1he BLM testified about wildlife protection. Its concern was that protected wildlife would rapidly reproduce, "overgraze the land and move outside the parks to compete with livestock for enough foragc.',4°2 Reinforcing the assertion that the national park idea had little to do with environmental protection for anything other than scenery, Montana's Senator Metcalf encouraged grazing in the m Salt Lake Trib11ne, ··Clyde, Udall Reach 'Unity· on 2 lssues," Octobcr 17, 1961, I 4 DO Frank Hcwlen, ··Clyde Favors Park, Asks Slash in Size," Sall Lake Tribune, March 31, 1%2, I 401 White, "Hearing Moving to Urnh." Deseret News and Sall lake Telegram, March JI, 1962. 402 Deseret News and Saft lake Telegram, '13LM Group Worried by Park Land Moves," February 3, 1962, A7. |
