Laserfiche WebLink
<br />1440 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In order to have some semblance of <br />orderly recommendations regarding these <br />developments, the last Congress, right at <br />the end of the session, provided for the <br />appointment of a National Wilderness <br />Recreational Resources Commission. This <br />commission consists of eight members from <br />the Congress, two Republicans from the House, <br />two Democrats from the House, two Democrats <br />from the Senate and two Republicans from the <br />Senate. In addition there are seven citizens <br />appointed by the President of the United <br />States. Mr. Laurence Rockefeller was appoin- <br />ed the Chairman of the group by the President, <br />together with six other people of whom one <br />was the National Executive Secretary of the <br />Izaak Walton League, Mr. Joe Penfold. Many <br />of you will remember him. He has some very <br />strong views, you will recollect, upon this <br />subj ect . <br /> <br />I had the wrong number at the Water <br />Congress, Ben. There are 25 to be appointed <br />on an advisory council to this; commission and <br />these 25 are to represent various interests <br />throughout the United States and we found <br />there wasn't much publicity given to this <br />matter and we were afraid we were about to be <br />slighted. We also noted the passage of the <br />bill some month or so ago and asked that <br />some steps be taken to have some one appointed <br />either on this Commission or the advisory <br />council. The thing lay rather dormant until <br />we got a letter recently from a group mostly <br />headed by the Cattlemen's Association that <br />Harold Christy put us onto which indicated <br />that we had to act immediately or we would <br />be forever lost. So in order to tie this <br />thing together it seemed we had to send some- <br />body and you know how it is when you make a <br />motion, you always get appointed to the <br />committee? Well, I made the motion so I got <br />appointed to the committee. The Water Board <br />of Denver did say that if I should be <br />appointed to this advisory commission I <br />could take the time to work on it and there- <br />fore we got together quite a bit of support <br />in the form of letters. Larry Sparks sent <br />one, Mr. Palmer from the mining group sent <br />one, quite a number of letters were sent to <br />support this. <br /> <br />I <br />