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File Number
8221.110.J
Description
Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
State
CO
Basin
Yampa/White
Date
7/6/1981
Title
The Echo of Echo Park: The History of National Park Development and Water Resource Nondevelopment in Northwest Colorado
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Report/Study
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<br />- <br />C! <br />"" <br /> <br />the question of power and of irrigation development which might be <br />deemed essential to...the area at some future date. I was authorized <br />to state, and did state as a representative of the National Park <br />Service, that grazing...would not be discontinued and that in the <br />event it became necessary to construct a project or projects for <br />power or irrigation...that the establishment of the Monument would <br />no (sic) interfere with such development." <br /> <br />, .- <br />(" <br />c. <br /> <br />Supporting affidavits were submitted and entered in the record <br />by J. A. Cheney of Vernal; Joseph Haslem, Jensen, Utah; Leo Calder, <br />Vernal; H. E. Seeley, Vernal, and B. H. stringham, Vernal. <br /> <br />Each declared, "that during the course of this meeting the <br />National Park Service representative assured the residents of these <br />areas that if the Dinosaur National Monument were enlarged, that <br />the National Park Service would not prevent or stand in the way of <br />the future reclamation projects or water development projects on <br />the Green River or the Yampa River within the boundaries of the <br />Dinosaur National Monument, for irrigation or power purposes." (18) <br /> <br />Haslem, now 86 and still living in Jensen, remembered the <br />events leading up to the local hearings and the proclamation itself. <br />He said that if the least hint had been given to indicate that ex- <br />pansion of Dinosaur would prohibit the water projects, what was <br />not only support but leadership in the drive to expand the Monu~ent <br />would have turned to unvarnished opposition. (19) <br /> <br />President Roosevelt's proclamation of July 14, 1938 expanding <br />the Monument had two portions related to prior withdrawals: "...do <br />proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, the following- <br />described lands...are hereby reserved from all forms of appropria- <br />tion under the public-land laws and added to and made a part of the <br />Dinosaur National Monument" and three paragraphs later, "...except <br />that this reservation shall not affect the operation of the Fede+al <br />Water Power Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1063), as amended, and <br />the administration of the monument shall be subject to the Recla- <br />mation Withdrawal of October 17, 1904, for the Brown's Park Reser- <br />voir Site in connection with the Green River project." (20) <br /> <br />From two undated pamphlets published by the Upper Colorado River <br />Commission, then of Grand Junction, Colorado: "Long before the en,... <br />largement of Dinosaur National Monument, it was foreseen...that a <br />conflict of interests...might some day prevent a well-rounded dev- <br />elopment of the area for the greatest good of the most people. So <br />steps were taken before the Monument was enlarged in 1938, to <br />develop a master plan... <br /> <br />"President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of 1938 <br />enlarging the...Monument recognized this principle and two recent <br />Secretaries of the Deparment of Interior...have si~ce reaffirmed <br />it...." (21) <br /> <br />"Use of the Monument for water storage purposes was definitely <br />promised at the time of its enlargement....This moral committment <br /> <br />-6- <br />
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