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Show 172 the Flood end and Flood me ans paas ed of .i.nvo.I vee gover1"...Den-t the the f'r-ori may be , public to pr-Lva te were cOITittee that the owner sh or i.p , necessc.ry fin2 aCQuisition, cue c t i on I "'rh( use by on the Federal more the thal11 ha.Lf of in other h2.nd, tow2rd which its specific aim "It asserteda directed, were ip considerable Garfield Cothllittee, advisable dO2.in.,,31 cwne r sh The ultimate in acr e s done Hi th the for cse \'!2.S priv2.te objective in the The c:1aI'c_cter th2.t should not have been 2. clusion of the Lano s ceveloping of c..re2..u30 in their contrast to the 27, 500 Davis Courrty reco!T'2enc.ations ing in 22."e 2.S delineating striking wer-e advanced by the G2Tfield Committee. Cor.r.ission, obser-ved Land's Comra.i s s i.on to as except for and. Governor Dern could to as use, disposition that such areas as should be of the the con- and graz- 2.[ricultural public see is the two the public reports generall:,,· irreconcilable L their assumptions and aims. Cle2.l"'ly, a choice would have to be nade be twe en them. governor first ex!'ressed himself on the matter, in AUGUst of 1930, he stated his belief, as "D2r2:ohrased in the Des81"et :e,'ls, l!tat ne r-har.s the best rae ans of che ck i.ng such perilous rract ice s (as over-gr az ing) wou Ld be to h ave the mountain lds taken over into state or federal control, so they r::L7:t be reforested." See "3 Cloudbursts Hit Tintic; Flood Prevention Urged, Deseret reVIS, Augu s t 14, 1930, p. l. This of cour-se was the burden of the Flood C.ommission' s r-e conmerida't i.ons issued four months later. 13ut this writer has found no evidence to warr2.nt the susTIicion that the governor prejudiced or pressured the corrission in any way. It 30Torrential 31Reuort of Floods, the AdT:linistrc_tion of t!le p. 21. Conittee on the ?ublic Locain, p. Conservation and 342. |
