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Another Dinosaur Battle 
By RAYMOND MOSTEK 
THE COLORADO WATER Conservancy Board has voted a fund of $39,000 to 
set up an office in Washington, D.C. to lobby for the Upper Colorado River 
Storage Project and spread propaganda across the nation. Congressman 
William Dawson of Utah has introduced HR 270, a bill asking Congress 
to authorize the project. This is essentially the same bill that conserva- 
tionists have opposed so vigorously in recent years. Similar measures are 
proposed in HR 2836, 3383 and 3384. The Senate counterpart is S 500. All 
must be defeated. 
The most objectionable feature of the project is the creation of a lake in 
Echo Park, part of the Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado 
border. The I. A. S. opposes these bills because: 
1. We believe the National Park System should be safeguarded and pre- 
served. Increasing millions are enjoying our parks. 
2. We oppose the construction of dams in our parks and monuments. None 
has been authorized in 40 years. 
The figures of the Reclamation Bureau are deceptive and erroneous. The 
dam could be built outside the park at lower cost. The entire Colorado 
Project will total over a billion dollars. Senator Paul Douglas has con- 
demned the proposal as “a pure pork barrel program.” “ 
4, If this plan succeeds, how can we resist proposals to build dams in. 
Glacier Nationa! Park, Grand Canyon, King’s Canyon, Yosemite and 
elsewhere? All of these have been suggested. 
Because many people rallied to protest this unwarranted invasion of our 
National Park System, the project was defeated last year. It is time to 
write to your Congressman, % The House Office Building, Washington, 
D.C., and to Senators Paul Douglas and Everett Dirksen, % The Senate 
Office Building, Washington, D. C. Ask them to vote against the authoriza- 
tion of a dam at Echo Park. Also write to: Hon. James E. Murray, Chair- 
man, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Hon. Clair Engle, 
Chairman, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Hon. Wayne 
Aspinall, Chairman, House Sub-Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation. 
And letters to your newspapers, urging people to send postcards to their 
Congressmen, will not be amiss. Echo Park must be saved. If you do your 
part, victory will again be assured. 
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Meeting of Illinois Conservation Council 
THE First ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the Illinois Conservation Council will 
be held in the St. Nicholas Hotel, Springfield, on April 15 to 17, 1955. In- 
vitations have been sent to Governor William Stratton, Conservation De- 
partment Director Glenn Palmer, and other members of the Illinois De- 
partment of Conservation. Additional invitations have gone out to nature 
study clubs, Audubon groups, garden clubs, and other organizations con- 
cerned with the conservation of natural resources in Illinois and the preser- 
vation of its wildlife. 
