development and use of the vast reserves of coal, oil, natural gas, 

 urani4jm and shale oil that they own and over geothermal potentials and 

 hydu^lectric dam sites on their reservations. Becoming more and more 

 accountable to their own people, they are engaged now not only in trying 

 to secure fair and equitable lease and royalty payments for the resources 

 they sell, but to make decisions for themselves on such questions as to 

 whether to allow exploitation of the resources on their reservations. How 

 much of them? In exactly which locations and how fast? Where roads and 

 service establishments will be sited. How pollution will be controlled. 

 How reclamation will be carried out. And whether or not they themselves 

 will be the producers and marketers of the resources they own. Whether 

 they will enter partnerships with corporations or whether they will simply 

 be leasors. Non-Indians today may be able to take lessons from such 

 tribes for they are facing the challenge of today and are also trying to 

 protect their heritage. They will allow the door to open to the 

 industrialized inroads that the energy crisis is forcing upon them, but 

 under their strict rules and supervision, they will also do everything 

 possible to protect everything that is dear and meaningful to them. That 

 is cherished as their legacy that must be preserved if they and their 

 children are to survive. Their land, their water, the air they breath, 

 their societies and their cultures--it is a challenge to them but they think 

 that they will succeed because they will try to make industry agree to 

 their protective conditions. It is also a challenge to non-Indians. Among 

 them, the future, I am afraid, is more of a question mark than among the 

 Indians. 



'National Demands 



for Western Resources' 



Moderator: Don Bianchi, Information Officer, Montana Department 

 of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 



"A Challenge to Outdoor Communicators": 

 Dr. Robert F. Wambach, Director, Montana Department of Fish, 



Wildlife and Parks; President, Western Association of 



Fish and Wildlife Agencies 

 "The Overthrust Belt is Next-A Newspaperman's Perspective": 

 William Ritz, Energy Writer, Denver Post 

 "Water for Energy and Agriculture": 

 Hubert G. White, former president, National Water Resources 



Association 

 "National Energy Needs: The Impact on Western Ranchers": 

 Don Bailey, Forsyth, Montana 



"How the West Has Fared, What the Future Holds": 

 Dorothy Bradley, Vice Chairperson, National Public Lands 



Advisory Council 



