Show I Wild gild Rivers Booklet Shown Publication of a page 44 four color booklet entitled Wild Rivers Riv ers by the Wild Rivers Study Team of the Department of Ag Ag- Agriculture and the Department of the Interior was announced last week at the annual convention of the Outdoor Writers Association of America In Glenwood Springs Colo THE NEW publication finan finan- financed ced with privately donated funds the attractions and values of of wild free flowing riv rivers ers and recommends establish establish- establishing ing a National system of wild rivers An introduction by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L Udall and Secretary of Agriculture Or dr vile ville L Freeman states We have harnessed many of our ri ri- ri rivers vers dedicating some to navigation tion others to power ater v ater sup ply disposal of wastes But we have not yet made adequate pro pro- provisions visions to keep at least a small stock of our rivers as we first knew them wild and free flow ing In a Nation as bountifully endowed as ours it is time to do doso doso so ISSUANCE of the wild rivers booklet coincides closely with I Senatorial consideration of an Administration proposal to es establish a national system of wild rivers Introduced as S 1446 by Sena Sena- Senator tor Frank Church of Idaho and sponsored by 32 other Senators the proposal has had bearings before the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee In Washington and field hearings In Idaho and Wyoming It would give immediate wild river status to six rivers and direct the stu- stu study study dy of nine others for possible la la- la later ter additions to the national tern tem of wild rivers |