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<br />(C <br />C] <br />(.:;) <br /> <br />site in Cross Mountain Canyon and backed water up to within a few <br />miles of the City of Craig with total storage capacity of more than <br />five million acre feet that among other things, inundated the town <br />of Maybell. <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />In his testimony, Grant also stated: "Ultimately, if after <br />thirty or forty or fifty years these substitutes are found to not <br />take all of the water of the Colorado Basin, you will still have <br />the possibility of developing these (Echo Park and Split Mountain) <br />projects...." (55) <br /> <br />Notable among supporters of Grant's concept ,and project oppo- <br />nents who repeatedly insisted that there were other alternatives, <br />were Dr. Ira M. Gabrielson, president, Wildlife Management Insti- <br />tute (56); Sigurd F. Olson, wilderness ecologist, Izaak Walton <br />League of America, Inc. (57); Kenneth D. Morrison, editor, Audubon <br />Magazine (58); Horace M. Albright, former director, National Park <br />Service (59); Charles G. Sauers, general superintendent, Cook County, <br />Illinois, Forest Preserve (60); George W. Kelly, editor, Green <br />Thumb, publication of the Colorado Forestry and Horti~ulture Associa- <br />tion (61); Newton B. Drury, director, National Park Service (62); <br />and Mrs. Charles O. Miller, secretary of the Colorado Citizen's Com- <br />mittee and coordinator of the Colorado efforts in opposition to the <br />Echo Park project (63). <br /> <br />Sauers, singled out alternatives stating "The Flaming Gorge and <br />Cross Mountain reservoirs...will offer excellent opportunities for <br />types of recreation associated with artificial lakes.. .The broader <br />lake that would be created by the Cross Mountain dam would also afford <br />good recreational possibilities." (64) In a letter to Mrs. Miller, <br />dated June 14, 1954, Colorado Senator Ed Johnson, a native of the <br />area, stated, "I would be for Juniper dam if the Reclamation people <br />would accept it as feasible. They do admit that Cross Mountain is <br />feasible and one of the best sites in the country and that is the <br />only reason I have favored it as a substitute for Echo Park...It <br />has been my hope that Cross Mountain would make a worthy substitute <br />and one to which too much objection could not be raised." (65) <br /> <br />Brower told a House subcommittee on March 17, 1955, "The Sierra <br />Club has no objection to a sound upper Colorado River Storage <br />Project that does not impair the national park and wilderness system." <br />(66) An earlier Sierra Club bulletin noted the existence of alter- <br />nate sites. (67) <br /> <br />Brower told a Senate committee, "...the team of Flaming Gorge, <br />Cross Mountain, and Curecanti dams, with some slight adjustment of <br />joint-cost allocation, should be feasible, with Cross Mountain pro- <br />viding greatest assistance. These three together are almost exactly <br />the equivalent of Echo Park in power generation and revenue." (68) <br /> <br />Author Wallace Stegner cited a Bureau of Reclamation inventory <br />of possible sites as well as a combination proposed by General <br />Grant. Both lists included Cross Mountain as a part of a combination <br />to provide the West with power generation and water storage similar <br /> <br />-11- <br />