'Water: Our Next Crisis in the West?" 



Moderator: Larry Peterman, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife 

 and Parks 



1. "Resource Needs Versus Development Needs": 



John Baughman, Wyoming Game and Fish Department 



2. "Slurry Pipelines in Our Future": 



Fred Eiserman, Energy Systems Transport, Inc., Casper, Wyoming 



3. "Water Priorities and Transportation": 



John Willard, Regional Manager-Public Relations, Burlington 

 Northern, Inc., Billings, Montana 



4. "The Value of Instream Flow": 



Willie Day, former Montana Legislator, Glendive, Montana 



5. "Water Issues and the Fisherman": 



Harry Miller, National Vice Chairman, Trout Unlimited 



LARRY PETERMAN : Our first panelist is John Baughman. He is from 

 Wyoming Game and Fish and he has been with them since 1974 in various 

 positions, starting out as a planning specialist and then a supervisor for a 

 fishery reservoir research crew. He currently holds the position of 

 Fisheries Management Coordinator and he comes from Cheyenne. His topic 

 is resource needs versus development needs and I think if you trace the 

 history of Wyoming over the last ten years with the development that has 

 occurred there and the resource issues that have arisen, we'll all agree 

 that somebody from Wyoming and somebody in John's position can give us a 

 real insight into the problem of resource needs versus development. I'll 

 turn it over now to John. 



JOHN BAUGHMAN : Well thank you Larry. You already took care of my 

 opening remarks on the fact that the overall theme of this panel is 

 somewhat of an anachronism. We're already in the crisis. It's here. If 

 you don't believe that you can talk to the subdividers or the 

 industrialists, people looking for additional water for agricultural 

 developments and they'll tell you what it's already like trying to find that 

 additional water. The unfortunate thing is that Joe Fisherman, the 

 average public, is unaware of what's happening to their water. People 

 realize that a lot of streams aren't as good fishing as they used to be and 

 they typically accept the poor fishing found on the wildly fluctuating 

 reservoirs in the intermountain states. Too often they equate these 

 problems with insufficient stocking of hatchery fish, rather than the crux 

 of the problem, habitat. And habitat, in a large part, is water. Western 

 water crises are already here. It's just that nonconsumptive users ar^ 

 unaware of the impact and the future implications. 



The subject of my presentation is resource needs versus development 

 needs. That's a pretty colorful title and I'm sure you expect to hear a lot 

 of dry rhetoric about fish needing too, about the amount of water needed 

 for coal, gasification and liquefaction versus trout needs instream, about 

 how we have to remember our fish and wildlife heritage and the rapid 



Water 

 Crises 



