DON BIANCHI : A rancher whose spread is near Colstrip, Montana, will 

 give us Ihe local perspective on the impacts of energy development from a 

 ranching viewpoint. Mr. Don Bailey. 



"There'rc are more of them than there are of us and there's no 

 question that they have superimposed their values into my com- 

 munity. And in a sense we're strangers in our own homeland right 

 now." 



DON BAILEY : I am not sure what kind of a compliment Ann Miller was 

 giving me when she asked me to speak on America's energy needs and its 

 impact on Montana ranchers and gave me ten minutes to do it in. I think 

 a lot of my basic philosophies have been promoted and exposed here this 

 morning by our previous speakers. I don't intend to dwell on my own 

 personal philosophies on this thing. 



I am a third generation rancher in eastern Montana. My grandfather 

 homesteaded, or settled on our ranch in 1886. We've been there 

 continuously ever since then. I would like to, from a geographical 

 standpoint, point out that we are ten miles downwind from Colstrip. I was 

 once referred to in an article in the Great Falls Tribune as an 

 environmentalist who owns a ranch south of Colstrip. I guess I'll have to 

 accept those implications. I am to deal with American's energy needs and 

 its impact on ranching in Montana, our life styles, the problems that are 

 associated from the environmental, social, economic and political 

 standpoints. 



I think it's probably of value at this point to relate an instance that I 

 experienced some ten years ago. I was in Washington, D.C. to testify on 

 behalf of the first federal strip mining bill that was introduced to 

 Congress. While there we had some free time and it was rather frightful 

 to me to be out running up and down the streets trying to hail down a 

 taxi cab in Washington, D.C, so I sought out something more constructive 

 to do. At that time the Northern Great Plains Resource program was in 

 its infancy, designed primarily to investigate and promote the philosophies, 

 I guess you might call them, of the North Central Power Study. The 

 project work group leaders were having a conference or a meeting back 



