| Show RARE ll letter HeP Gunn McKay D C Gunn- It was a pleasure to hear from I guess your letter proves that you have your oar to the ground and are listening to the grass If 1 were I wouldn't take Richardson's talk too I guess he knew how I felt about RARE II and chose the subject I talked to Richardson before the meeting and gave him some good but he evidently didn't pay much attention to I told him that Gunn McKay had been a good representative and that he would have a long hard pull to unseat you and that the worst thing he could do was to start a mud-slinging as that was what defeated your last Joe We all know what you have done and what you stand Joe was so on opposing that was all he could talk about and I never did find out what he stood We have all watched your career closely and you have friends in strange I am an In- dependent and a and have voted for you every time you ran for I don't always agree with you but there I don't always agree with my In one of our board I brought up the subject of inviting you to speak at one of our future One of our board members is a real staunch Republican and I told him he probably wouldn't agree with He that is where you are I voted for Gunn I met your representative at the Bottle Hollow meeting where I sat on a panel with I was representing the Utah Cattlemen's Association of which I am also a The Utah State Professor who conducted the meeting each of us 5 st fr our summation and mine brought down the house The who probably belongs to the Sierra Club chewed me out for the viewpoint I for Pre son other 1 that U read the paper and know where I stand on RARE The reason we had a RARE I and now a RARE II is because of the Sierra Club who sued Earl then Secretary of Agriculture and won with a 8 'S SL sent me a book about of the Bible called a draft Environmental Statement and proposed Land Management You probably were sent one also but I don't long as a bunch of malcontents such as the Sierra Club can tie our government in knots as they have with this and other we may as well forget balancing the budget as these studies and statements are costing us millions of dollars A good case in point was the Alaska pipeline which they held up for three years and made tte cost double what we could have built it for if built on I have been asked to sit on the panel again in Salt Lake City September much to my 1 thought they would be happier if I stayed at I suppose either you or your representative will be there If you I will be glad to discuss the matter with I have read all of the report and intend to also study it thoroughly before the According to the Forest the Commissioners of all counties and Governments tave aPProved the B Proposal which the Forest Service is advocating but I ve ked to many of VC fA Area is nothing is further from the Congress voted down RARE I in 17 and they can vote down RARE If alternative is we will lose nearly half of our besides creating fire traps in which a lot of good timber will go up in like the Squaw Basin fire did several years ago in n the ine primitive arna which would become part of the Wilderness Livestock production will be ham- by a policy of Range Im- Much of this country they are calling and is used by many rit which could become important In the If we get a large influx of people Into the Wilderness we will have to have a permit to use Proposal would take 61 percent of our The proposal advocated by the Wilderness Coalition take 86 I am a little surprised that they just ask for all of while they were at 1 k 0 to a da loco and If you want to make a lot of friends in the Uintah Basin and the rest of I urge you to campaign and vote against RARE We are getting along fine with multiple use and we sure don't need any more government regulation and have had it up to the neck with environmentalists I gave Jed Richardson some good now I will give you If you want to stay in you had better climb on the Conservative bandwagon and stay if you aren't there Utah has had all of the Sierra Morris Cecil Andrus or Jimmy Carter do any campaigning for ours Uintah Cattlemen's P We appreciate your sponsoring the Rangeland Development Bill and hope you can gei it |
