your dollar resources aren't enough, you start cashing in your social 

 traditions. Last week Mobil Oil, running full page ads, tried to squelch a 

 television program by a moviemaker in the U.S. because it was critical of 

 an ArafS'lan oil source and the politics there. That desperate attempt by a 

 powerful special interest, because of greed and refusal to believe we are 

 in an era of limits, to squelch freedom that is fundamental to the American 

 tradition is the kind of act that has preceded the collapse of other 

 civilizations. 



California, with its large urban populations, taking baths, drinking 

 water and demanding more recreation and more fishing and more of every- 

 thing is facing some difficult decisions in planning its future. It is an 

 interesting place to be as a manager and it is conflict ridden. I would 

 suggest to Mr. Shanks that I hope his next paper will be on RARE 1 1 , or 

 water or on any of a number of other issues we are trying to resolve. In 

 fact, I would love to have him come to one of our California universities 

 where we could meet more often. 



California has taken a position that we must, without question, move 

 on from the exploitive, fossil fuel era into one of a solar age based on a 

 conserver society. This need not entail declining life-styles. By 

 upgrading the productive natural systems of our State--grazing, 

 agriculture, forestry, fisheries, soils, and others--we can provide a 

 perpetually renewable, stable basis for our economy and our social 

 institutions. And we are making a policy commitment to do that, which I 

 would like to describe to you. 



We are doing it in three stages. First, we established a special fund 

 for managing our renewable resources, Renewable Resources Investment 

 Fund, and then we took $10,000,000 out of the general fund shortly after 

 the Proposition 13 vote. The appropriation passed the Assembly 77 to 1 , 

 and the Senate 28 to 0. One conservative senator said creation of the 

 fund was the first environmental law \r\e had voted for in his five years in 

 office. He, and others, understood the logic of our proposal because we 

 were investing in the future, and we either invest in the future or we are 

 not going to survive. That's part of the transition we must make from past 

 beliefs, shared by cattlemen and others, that there will always be unlim- 

 ited open spaces and things will continue forever as they have been for 

 the last 100 years. The struggle of this transition is something that hurts 

 us all, but it's a reality. Our second step is an educational approach, a 

 bond issue on the June ballot for $495,000,000. That money will be used 

 for a number of purposes, but basically it will be used to demonstrate the 

 necessary linkage between all resources. You can't manage trees without 

 affecting soils, water quality, water quantity, and fisheries. In the west 

 slopes of the U.S., steelhead and salmon go up streams to spawn, and if 

 you have soil eroding into the river, not only do you lose the productivity 

 of your forest, you lose the productivity of your fisheries, and that's 

 exactly what we have had happen. 



So, this money will double the number of salmon and steelhead in the 

 State. It will provide low-interest loans for irrigation equipment for small 



