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IN BRIEF, FOR THE RECORD ... 
MORE NEW ‘PLANS’ FOR GRAND CANYON PARK 
The effort to save the Grand Canyon is far from over. Cong. Morris 
K. Udall, Arizona, has introduced HR 9 which would allow construction of 
Bridge Canyon or Marble Canyon Dam or both. Meanwhile, Cong. John 
Saylor, Pa., who strongly opposes both dams, has introduced HR 1305 
which would enlarge the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. 
Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall has announced that his department 
is recommending enlargement of Grand Canyon National Park to en- 
compass Marble Canyon and that any action on Bridge Canyon Dam 
(Hualapai) be deferred pending further study. Conservationists are lending 
strong support to the Saylor bill which offers good protection to the park, 
the canyon, and the wilderness aspects of the great Colorado River. 
TAS ENDORSES APOSTLE ISLAND BILL 
The island wilderness of the Apostle Islands, north of Bayfield, Wis., 
has been endorsed as a national lakeshore by the Wisconsin Resource 
Conservation Council and several other groups. The IAS Board supports 
enactment of S. 778, introduced by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin. 
The legislation would preserve many magnificent sloughs and sand beaches. 
Some seven years ago, a National Park Service survey pointed out only 
426 miles of shoreline in Great Lakes area possessed important recreational 
opportunities. Congress has been slow to protect them. 
President Johnson has listed the Apostle Islands as one of four 
proposed national parks deserving of priority attention by Congress. 
Because of the Vietnam conflict, which is draining $25 billion a year of 
tax funds, Congress may be reluctant to vote the park. The area contains 
21 wild offshore islands, an important bird and wildlife area, and 30 miles 
ot undeveloped mainland shoreline. Only massive citizen support can save 
this area. If Congress fails to act, it will fall to private development and 
exploitation. Further information may be had from the Citizens Committee 
for Apostle Islands National Park, c/o Dr._B. C. Prentice, Chairman 
Ashland, Wis. Mr. Martin Hanson of Mellen, Wis., is secretary of the 
Wisconsin Resource Conservation Council. 
BILLBOARD LOBBY CONTINUES ITS ASSAULT 
The Billboard lobby is seeking to destroy the Highway Beautification 
Act of 1965 in the present 90th Congress. Hearings have already been 
held under Cong. John Kluczynski, Ill., chairman of the subcommittee on 
public roads. Several state roadside councils have urged that conserva- 
tionists flood their congressmen with letters urging that the beautification 
features not be weakened. 
As the present act now reads, there will be removal of several 
hundred thousand billboards across the country by 1971 (20,000 in California 
alone); it now provides for screening or removal of most rural junkyards; 
there will be a significant increase in roadside rest areas, scenic areas, and 
wayside parks. The billboard lobby has always maintained that “voluntary 
controls” are best, but they never choose to define what these “voluntary” 
standards are, nor have they hesitated to erect huge signboards on super- 
highways as soon as they are completed, and sometimes before. (One has 
