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Show Group Protests Intervention By Outside Organizations By C. Sharp Paul Steed, Escalante of the Fout Corners Regional Development Association and others, took a crack at VSierra Ctab "conservationists "conservation-ists - during a conference with Rampton June 30.' . Vacationists-Dictators "People in our area" he said are tired of the Sierra Club and other people who don't have any regard f cTr our area except for three-day three-day vacations dictating to us what we can do and how we can live," Steed declared. declar-ed. Leland Griffin, Henrie-ville, Henrie-ville, said "hikers are interfering in-terfering with stockmen and some of the stockmen are thinking of traveling in pairs and carrying guns." Calvin Black Monticello, San Juan County Commission Commis-sion member, reported instances in-stances of local people digging dig-ging up Indian ruins and hiding them. "You should see some of the collections," he said. i Ramptjon expressed alarm al-arm at a statement that someone "just might get a case of dynamite and solve the Rainbow Bridge problem." prob-lem." Rainbow Bridge "I can't think anyone down there would do such a thing," the governor declared. de-clared. The conference was con-deemed con-deemed 'directly with the proposed steam - electric power plant near Escalante. Rampton had said the week before that it would be unwise un-wise for the state to approve ap-prove any new water rights for this plant until the Bureau Bur-eau of Reclamation study of results of existing plants in the area could be completed com-pleted within about a year. Rampton said Wednes- day that the committee ' could go ahead with pre- : liminary studies for the j iplant pending the bureau's 1 study of environmental impact. |