UNIVERSTY OF CALIFORNIA HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 174, H.R. 293, H.R. 299, H.R. 496, H.R. 776, H.R. 1762, H.R. 1925, H.R. 2008, and H.R. 8237 BILLS TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM FOR THE PERMANENT GOOD OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Statement of— Elliott S. Barker, Santa Fe, N. Mex.. Page 540 John B. Barnard, counsel, accompanied by Philip P. Smith, secretary- 545 522 William T. Berry, Jr., assistant to the president, American Motor 514 H. G. "Si" Berthelson, immediate past president, Colorado Cattle- 551 Mrs. Nina Brouse, representing Kannah Creek Cowbelles, Whitewater, Calo.. A. Allen Brown, Delta, Colo.. E. H. Brunquist, representing the Colorado Mountain Club and staff 560 549 517 W. J. Hoffmann, chairman, Public Lands Committee, Colorado State 485 John A. Hughes, secretary, the Tri-County Water Conservancy Dis- trict, and attorney, the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Associa- Sam C. Hyatt, Worland, Wyo., member of Wyoming Natural Resource 503 George F. Jackson, president emeritus Izaak Walton League of 523 Carl T. L. Jorgensen, chairman, Fish and Wildlife Committee, Wyo- 512 ་། Statements of-Continued Frank D. McClelland, chairman, Board of County Commissioners, Page 585 Francis P. Murphy, rancher and stockman from Walden, Jackson 592 New Mexico Wildlife and Conservation Association, Inc., as presented 509 Royal C. Pixler, Colorado State Chamber of Commerce, Denver, Colo. John B. Rigg, Denver, Colo__ 595 Gordon Robinson, assistant manager, Colorado-Ute Electric Associa- 567 J. Fred Schneider, representing Western Slope District County Com- 593 C. A. Stoddard, member, State Board of Colorado Association of Soil 586 Farrell T. Wankier, Jr., assistant secretary, National Wool Growers 587 George E. Weaver, Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Dis- 482 Harry R. Woodward, director, Department of Game and Fish, State 474 WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1961 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Montrose, Colo. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 m., in the Fox Theater, Hon. Gracie Pfost (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mrs. ProST. The Subcommittee on Public Lands will be in order for the consideration of the wilderness legislation. At this point I should like to introduce the Honorable Wayne Aspinall, the distinguished chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. We had to hold hearings yesterday and the day before without our able chairman, and we are most delighted to have him here today leading us on this particular piece of legislation. At this time the Chair recognizes the Honorable Wayne Aspinall. Mr. ASPINALL. Madam Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Public Lands, it is not my purpose this morning to take any more time than to just welcome you and your committee to this part of the Nation for a hearing on one of the most vital and important and yet controversial pieces of legislation on which the Subcommittee on Public Lands, as well as the full Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the House of Representatives will have the responsibility of making a decision in the coming session of the Congress. I wish to let the people who are here attending this session of this committee this morning realize that this is a business session of a very important subcommittee operation. We are not operating this hearing here today for any other purpose than to get testimony just as quickly and as swiftly as possible. The order that we will have will permit us to do that. The questions, necessarily, by the committee today will be short. We have a lot of work to take care of before this committee has to adjourn this afternoon. We are late starting because of weather conditions causing the late arrival of the plane in Grand Junction. This can be a very important part of this operation, as far as the hearing on this bill is concerned, because we are right in the heart of one of the most scenic, most naturalistic, most phenomenal parts of the Nation, as well as in the area where we have many uses on public land which center in the Rocky Mountain West. On my left I have our colleague from Montana, the Honorable Arnold Ölsen, a new Member of Congress and a new member of this committee. |