BOARD01601

• Board Meeting Date: 7/6/1962
• Description: Meeting and resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

of this thing alone are fantastic, the people
it will employ, the amount of equipment and
material that goes into these projects and
when you spread them out up and down the
Arkansas Valley and all through this western
slope area, the additional projects that will
come, it is going to mean a great deal to this
entire State. The recreational values and the
ensuing economic benefits that will result are
going to be absolutely phenomenal to this State
of ours and I think that we ought never to
lose sight of the fact that whatever we have
to allocate for the development of water proj-
ects in this State in terms of finances and
techniques and money, we ought to do this
immediately. We ought to use the extreme
limits of vision and foresight in our planning
so that we are always ready to take advantage
of whatever opportunities present themselves
in the area of water and resource development."

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"Thank you, Governor.

We'll have the Acting Director now dis-
cuss with us the Wilderness Bill."

"In March I went back to \"1ashington and
presented testimony on behalf of the State of
Colorado on the wilderness Bill at the House
Interior Committee hearings. The testimony
was the resolution passed by this Board at, I
believe, the January meeting - just translated
into testimony. Now that, substantially, pro-
vided for the affirmative action by Congress
in setting forth and delineating wilderness
areas rather than the negative approach that
was contained in the bill. We also testified
as to the advisability of holding local hear-
ings in the areas which would be directly
affected by the delineation of wilderness areas
and strongly urged that any legislation be sub-
mitted to the Governors of the states affected
for their comments so that wilderness designa-
tions would be processed somewhat in the same
manner that other projects are processed, gen-
erally in the line of the 1958 Coordination Act.

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