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<br />I <br /> <br />on the floor of both Houses of Congress. It has surely <br />been one of the great conservation battles of the past <br />half century. Conseq~ently, failure of the Congress to <br />act this past session is tantamount to a decisive vote <br />against Echo Park Dam. It is notable and regrettable that <br />no action was taken to approve any of the desirable and <br />non-controversial features of the Colorado River development <br />program. <br /> <br />We believe that Echo Park Dam will never be authorized, <br />except in the event of some'nationa~ emergency and for the <br />safety of the Nation. We believe any future proposals includ- <br />ing Echo Park Dam as a key structure are doomed to defeat. We <br />believe that ~greement four and a half years ago to shelve <br />Echo Park for further study and its deletion from current <br />development proposals would have resulted in authorization of <br />other and truly key structures in the program and construction <br />would now be well under way. <br /> <br />We believe that the tL~e has come to accept these facts, <br />to drop the Echo Park Dam proposal and to unite behind a <br />sOClnd development program for the Upper Colorado Basin. The <br />time is ripe, because the Echo. park controversy has served <br />to acquaint the vast American public .vith the real and <br />indisputable water problems of this vast, arid but resource- <br />rich inland empire. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />With these thoughts in mind, the Colorado Division of <br />the Izaak Walton 1eague of A~erica.states its categorical <br />belief that sound water development of the Colorado River is <br />essential to the future of Colorado, the West and.the Nation. <br />It calls on all federal and state agencies and officials, <br />counties and municipalities, conservation and irrigation <br />districts, landowners, conservationists, sportsmen a~d <br />citizens generally to bend every effort to devise and <br />propose a water development progra~ within the Colorado <br />drainage which realistically provides for the future require- <br />ments of our state and the o~~er states of the.basin for <br />domestic consumption, irrigation, industrial-growth, recreation <br />and the preservation of other values essential to the <br />environment which makes our region. incomparable. <br /> <br />The Colorado Division with the support of the national <br />Izaak Walton League pledges its full cooperation toward that <br />goal." <br /> <br />.444. <br />