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Show Uildiife Group Boosts Upper Colorado Mm The Utah Wildlife Federation last week initiated a campaign to convince conservationists and the wildlife champions throughout the country that the Echo Park unit of the proposed Upper Basin Colorado Col-orado River Project will enhance rather than damage scenic and wildlife resources. In co-operation with the "grassroots" "grass-roots" organization set up to support sup-port the project the federation began mailing out letters and booklets designed to correct misinformation mis-information disseminated by opponents op-ponents of the project Herbert F. Smart, secretary of the federation, federa-tion, said the information was being sent to 2,200 individuals who made protests against the project to congressional committees commit-tees and to officers of conserva--tionst organizations througout the country. "Factually, the Dinosaur National Na-tional Monument boundaries", the letter stated, "were extended either subject to prior rights for power and reclamation or the monument boundaries invaded power and reclamation withdrawals. with-drawals. Under either condition, the building of the dam (Echo Park) will not be an invasion of a national park or monument nor can it establish a precedent, as some have alleged. "There are no wildlife resources in the area which will be destroyed de-stroyed indeed the construction of the dam will add to our wildlife wild-life resources in this desert country, just as the construction of Hoover Dam in Black Canyon created Lake Meade and its wonderful fisheries resource." |