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<br />He is going to talk about the Yampa. He was born and raised down there <br />in that country. He never ate any beef until he started high school <br />here in Craig. I don't know what he ate d~Nn there, but he was raised <br />on that river. So I want to let Sam Haslem present this to you and I <br />will go out and get ~tr. Stamm at the airport. Thank you. <br /> <br />~tr. Haslem: Thanks, John. Actually, I am supposed to make a quick <br />pitch as chairman of the Northwest Water Council. The gentleman that <br />was just up here a little bit ago, Bill Jordan. preceded me on this job. <br />And Bill did an awful lot of work. Bert Carroll is in the room. He <br />is a former chairman. The Council is made up of all of the water <br />agencies here in northwest Colorado, the ditch companies, the water <br />conservancy districts, the towns, the counties, chambers of commerce, <br />and so on. We really are glad you are here. <br /> <br />We here in the northwest part of Colorad have been active. We were <br />quite active in these Dinosaur hearings. One of the things that we <br />asked was why wasn't the Colorado Water Conservation Board asked for <br />its comments? Why wasn't the Colorado River District notified? Why <br />weren't the county commissioners in Carbon County, Wyoming? There are <br />water conservancy districts here, the Great Northern, the Yampa. Why <br />weren't they notified? <br /> <br />I am seriously concerned about the question raised by this board as to <br />how well this will be circulated in the future. I think all of us who <br />are concerned with water have a right to know. We are in the communica- <br />tions business. Ny job with Colorado State University is in communica- <br />tions. <br /> <br />I have a father who is not a kid like John Sherman. My dad is 78 years <br />old and he has lived on that river all of his life. He made a state- <br />ment down at Vernal. about nine pages of the Dinosaur Wilderness <br />hearings. I would like to give you people a bit of history concerning <br />water. My father was on the survey crew when the first stakes were <br />planted in that Dinosaur Monument. I want to quote a paragraph of his <br />statement that he made at the Vernal hearings on the proposal. <br /> <br />"Joe Haslem: Originally the Dinosaur National Monument embraced 80 <br />acres. This area where the dinosaur bones were discovered justified <br />the creation of the National Monument. In 1936, citizens of eastern <br />Utah and western Colorado were asked to give their support to the <br />creation of an additional 240,000 acres which comprises the present <br />Monument area. This support was given and the i~nument area enlarged, <br />but only with the assurance from the National Park Service that the <br />creation of the enlarged tlonument would in no way restrict the <br /> <br />-20- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />