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Show Lloyd Would Limit Glen Canyon Rec. Area fo a Minimum of Land Area WASHINGTON Rep. P. Lloyd, R-Utah, said this week that he will introduce a bill in the House to limit Glen Canyon National Recreation Rec-reation Area to the waters cf Lake Powell plus a minimum of adjacent land needed by the Park Service for facilities and service. All other surrounding sur-rounding land would be included in-cluded in a "National Conservation Con-servation Area" to be administered admin-istered for multiple use by the Bureau of Land Management. Manage-ment. The Conservation area, he said, will encompass the tabl? lands above the lake and will include the controversial Es-calante Es-calante River Drainage designated de-signated for wilderness study by a bill which has already passed the Senate. i "The National Conservation Conserva-tion area is a relative new concept for public lands. It gives Congressional commitment commit-ment to the principle of carefully care-fully monitored multiple use management of public land areas worthy of special protection pro-tection because of their unique uni-que and significant esthetic values," Rep. Lloyd said. He said there has up to now been only one conservation conserva-tion area approved in the United States the Kings Ranch area near the Redwood Red-wood National Park in Calif. "In Utah, it would appear that there is great value and need to identify the significant signifi-cant public lands having multiple mul-tiple resource opportunities around Lake Powell, and to develop a long-range master plan both to protect environmental environ-mental and scenic values, and to provide for orderly and proper utilization of needed need-ed national resources," Rep. Lloyd sand. "This designation will give the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment the authority, tools and funds it needs to develop a long - range plan for multiple multi-ple uses which are consistent with the need to preserve and protect the wild beauty of this area," he said. Rep. Lloyd said he will have a specific proposal ready before the House Subcommittee Subcommit-tee on Parks and Recreation, of which he is a member, holds Utah field hearings on the Glen Canyon area in early ear-ly spring. The Senate has already passed a bill creating a 1.2 million acre National Recreation Rec-reation Area under the management man-agement of the National Park Service. The Senate bill added add-ed over 130,000 acres of the Escalante River Drainage Area and designated it for study as potential wilderness. Rep. Lloyd sai dthe proposal would limit the National Recreation Rec-reation area to about 340,000 acres. He said he is studying two proposals for a National Conservation Area, one of. which would include nearly 2,2 million acres and another which would encompass 4.3 million acres. "My objective will be to protect the esthetic and scenic values of the area wihtout locking up more land than is necessary for administration admin-istration of the primary recreation rec-reation resource, which is Lake Powell itself," he said "No one proposes to des! troy the beautiful gorges t the Escalante Drainage Arej and I think we can give then the full protection they serve while allowing onuses on-uses wnich would not be j, compatible or detract from the scenic values in way," he said. ' Rep. Lloyd had previous, gone on record as opposi' the inclusion of the Escal? ante Drainage in the recrtj! tion area and favoring a ro3j i proposed by the Utah State Highway Department aion the north shore of Lake p0, " ell from Page, Arizona, 0 Bullfrog Basin. "I believe the road would open up tourist potential on j the Utah side of the lake and allow many more people 0 enjoy the spectacular seen, ery," he said. "The road would cross the Escalanif River roughly at the 'higk water line of the lake, leat, ing the gorges north 'of lake in their primitive state" .Lloyd .said.. . |