| Show central arizona project association warns against conservation attacks PHOENIX nov members of wild life and co today wore were asked b tin the central Ar arizona project t ai Ocia tion to bo be wary ot of at treks on oil tle legitimate colorado I 1 liver water alms of mid mothr states by so called cOll conservation gro groups tin nit pica plea made uty by dave brin arar executive secretary of the tile project association was pointed particularly to members of the sierra club of Cali forniti t the lie american forestry association the national association cia tion the tie isaak walton league the national wild lite life federation and 0 other ther groups attacking full do development of th the colorado river whatever the noble intentions of the leadership of the these so groups the net effect Is to grind southern california Cali fornias s n ax to the peril of arizona co colorado or a ad 0 new mexico utah wyom wyoming I 1 n a and n d nevada and the membership h ip of the groups in those six states should be wary brinegar said bitin citing ig a united press dispatch in which the so called council ot of conservationists and sigurd olson president of the national parks association were quoted as being against the upper colorado river basin storage project brinegar warned Arlzo Arizo nans and persons in colorado new mexico utah wyoming and nevada that there are many persons in arizona who may think this fight has nothing to do with arizona such Is not true it involves arizona as well as a the rest of the upper basin states it also aiso involves northern california oregon n washington idaho montana north ana and south dakota nebraska kansas oklahoma and texas insofar as one extends the principle that reclamation states are entitled to the legi mate benefits oc curing from development of their water resources the council of conservationists which in my opinion mis appropriates the word conservationist since many thousand sincere conservationists are for the upper basin pro Prope act ct is pursuing either by abc acc accident ident or b by design the same line of atta attack on fuli full development of the col colorado river that is pursued by the colerado Col prado grado river association of california the metropolitan water district of southern call fornia and other california organizations when Ariz Arizo nans were in washington working for the central arizona project bill in 1948 1949 and 1850 1950 a similar attack and by the same people was made on the central arizona zoni project despite the fact arizona had modified the central arizona project bill so that no real teal invasion of public parks would result one of the attacks on ari arl aa zona was U in a national conker vati ocleta oc lety ma azille I 1 went to the office of tal stint at as on oil seventeenth street N W in washington and asked for a copy I 1 was told I 1 could have reprints by the thousands thousands paid for by the tile vc ve v c president ent 2 of 11 large 1 0 mercantile firm 1 in n los lo 10 A angeles i I rf 1 true rrue of the colorado I 1 river basin calls for development of the re resources dource a of lie tile colorado river for the tile benefit of all the states in the basin not just tor for california the upper e r basin project poses no fl ir eat to dinosaur beds and would open a 1 remote region so that millions ot of americans could see it likewise construction of bridge canyon dam tha the roy key structure tuie in the central arizona project would open a vast hinterland in no northwestern r orn t ite stern arizona to millions of tourists we believe in parks arks for the millions not just for or the few alizona Af izona and other conservationists should be wary of the statements of organ izat ions like the sierra C club au b of california the council of conservationists the coordinating council of natural resources the national parks association the american forest forestry association and the isaak league each of those organizations has a worthy job to do in its own field for any of those organizations to t gratuitously join in the nasty business of helping southern california in its efforts to cho chop off the economic heads of arizona ar f nevada colorado new utah and wyoming is wrong brinegar appealed to members of conservation organizations to notify their leadership they th e are against taking sides side 3 wi with C california in the plans f for or develde development of the colorado river bibin Arlzo Arizo nans in particular should remember that this at state te has been in the grips ot of a bitter bitter and expensive struggle with southern Calit california omil interests for years |
