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Show tion is "National Recreation Area." "It is our desire,"- Crane concluded, in his testimony before be-fore the Senators, "that Congress Con-gress will see the need for incorporating in-corporating features herein expressed ex-pressed by this department and other conservation agencies in this and all new National Park Service units. Current and future fu-ture issues, must be faced honestly hon-estly and realistically. Decisions Deci-sions must be faced on facts and not sentiment." G:ni3 stent! en cenyenknds tc!tl by dept. During the course of Senate hearings on the proposed Canyonlands National Park held in Salt Lake City this week, department of fish and game director Harold S. Crane summarized the department's stand . on the park in seven major points, as follows: 1. The ownership of all resident res-ident wildlife species rests with the state of Utah and the administration and regulation regula-tion of this source should be accomplished by the State through existing State laws and regulations. 2. The anxiety of this department de-partment is not concerned with old and established National Parks but with new units of the National Park Service such as proposed. It is on tnese new units that the Park Service Serv-ice would restrict hunting on Federal, State and private : lands currently open to public hunting. Public hunting will not interfere with such units but will actually enhance them by keeping the flora and fauna in proper balance. 3. The need for management manage-ment of the wildlife resource is apparent and recognized by the National Park Service. The wording proposed by the International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners will allow the Secretary to fully protect areas where and when necesasry; yet will allow management where it is necessary or advis- . able. 4. Congress has recognized other uses on National Parks ' and particularly on other lands administered by the National Park Service. 5. Future hunting in the I Canyonlands area will ma-i ma-i terially Increase with the advent ad-vent of accessibility of the region re-gion to the public. Unless provisions pro-visions are made for wildlife management, over population and resultant damage to flora as well as fauna can be ex- I pected. j 6. We cannot agree with the National Park Service's policy of denial of public hunting as i expressed: . . . "Public hunt-i hunt-i ing is neither the appropriate nor practical way to accomplish accom-plish National Parks and National Na-tional Monuement management objectives. Recreational hunt-' hunt-' ing, however well justified and j, appropriate in other places, is i irreconcilable to National Park : and National Monument pur-poses. pur-poses. 7. Contemplated use of the - River System is primarily rec-i rec-i reation; f.e., boating, fishing, i hunting, water skiing, camping, camp-ing, etc. Consequently, they ' are secondary uses as far as the National Park Service is concerned unless the designa- |
