Show facts on river dams given A A number of arguments fare being ing used to discourage the instruction of dams on the green river ernest Unten Unter nann mam in charge of cd the utah fiela field house at vernal prepared the fot following lowing facts in support of d the proposed dams dam which are of particular interest at this time 1 FICTION that the proposed dams dam will inundate the fargou fossil lossa dinosaur beds for which the monument was originally established TACT FACT this Is a physical as 3 the fossil beds ue he downstream from both dams end and high above the river bed besides 2 FICTIONS oneat That dams will WW Ost detroy di troy roYthe the inspirational value 01 rf the river banzona ba nyona bacr canyon depth will win be modified but slightly little affecting present height only at sit the will change he be noted 3 FICTION alter alternate outside the monument are fust just sa as good wood FACT are am selected for a specific reason alternate mastbe must be more mom than dion lust just another darn site tc they must adequately buum ithe the purpose of the dam being replaced 4 FICTION that all the proposed dams danis are not needed that several of them thern could be eliminated and the results would toe be the bairn mw FACT the proposed are am needed if 12 hm horses are needed to move a specific load it cannot be effi efficiently dently moved by 8 9 10 or 11 of them it takes the horse to make the other 11 effective 5 FICTION that the dams dam ore axe being built at sit the taxpayers expense FACT funds raids used to build the dams dam are investments by the federal government they are repayable over a period of yearn yeam it we can give lve money snowy to foreign countries with little hope of repayment surely aurely wo we can inmost in jn the development of our ow own coun country tryl 6 FICTION that ith the construction st of proposed dama dams in danos dinosaur national monument dooms wilderness are areas in america to extinction continued on page 8 FACTS ON RIVER aims DAMS ConW continued med from page 1 PACT FACT in 10 its present state only I 1 per cent of dinosaur national monument ta is accessible to the thi general public the 89 99 per cent la is unseen and unknown to the traveling public as a whole construction of the p proposed ed dams dam with the their ir rel 17 at lakes would make mke 20 per cent ot of the monument known to the great bulk of visitors fully 80 per cent ot of the monument would romin an untouched wilde wilderness M ess in the national parks seme areas of the united states are ere preserved wilderness regions newly as large lane as the state of maine canadian N national a parks preserve an area larger than scotland or nearly newly thirty thousand square miles the national forests of the united states preserve nearly acres of wildet wilderness ss state parks preserve additional thousands ot of acres besides all these vast wilderness regions hundreds hundred of thousands of square miles ijes of untamed fatme run xun wild outside these restricted areas arms pioneers have struggled and died to tame a small percentage at of this boundless area in order that the frontiers 0 ot civilization might toe be advanced A few feim needed dama dorm should not be lie looked upon n as a national calamity unity tre they y are we a means of securing hard won and pave the way for rm expanding populations the entire west cann cannot qt be expected to an inaccessible cesal ces sible ble wilder wilderness new the west has a right to live 7 that the dams ithe the monument and wa violate national park rights fact dinosaur national monument was en enlarged lareed to include the green and yampa rivers in 1938 two years eais ear her to in 1836 1936 park service of pron r residents ld ts of ot uhe area both utah and colorado that the enlargement of the mar tinner ft would not interfere with the development ot Of power and water projects in the river canyons good faith falth requires that these thew PCs be kept 8 FICTION The dama dams mean federal control and violate the vt od private enter enterprise prize FACT facton on the contrary cont raty the dama dams will encourage private enterprise by providing water and power ifor for agriculture municipal and use |