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Hearings CicBy Frank Hewlett ■ Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON Hearings were completed Tuesday by the House national parks and recreation subcommittee on three Utah park bills. * , ':;One would enlarge Canyonlands. National Park and the others would give national park status to the Arches and Capitol Reefs national monuments, giv-’ ing Utah five national parks.Chairman Roy A. Taylor, D-N.C., devoted 'Tuesday morning to hearing from representatives of conservation groups. After they finished he announced the hearing record would he kept open for 10 days to permit the filing of statements by persons who were unable to appear and also give the National Park Service time to provide additional information requested by the subcommittee.Tuesday’s principal witness was Mrs. June Viavant, Salt I.ake City, who is a member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club.Mrs, Viavant, who was walking with the assistance of a single crutch, explained her ankle sprain didn’t happen while hiking through some of Utah’s rugged park areas but in stepping fromher car in a parking lot In downtown Salt hake City.For the proposed Capitol ReeLs National Park, Mrs. Viavant- suggested “consideration, of a name change to the Waterpocket Fold National.Park.”“The area is fully deserving of national park status,she said. “Geologically the waterpocket fold is the text book example of monocline. Scientifically it is as unusual, and as spectacular as any area in. southern Utah, Reereationally, the area has much to offer.“To the car tourist; it offers magnificent vistas of Strike Valley, overlook of the waterpocket fold, roads to the Cathe-Atty. Geu. Romuey To Attend Confabi .Ally. Gen. Vernon B. Romney will attend the 65th annual meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General next week in San Juan, Puerto Rico, He will be accompanied by Dep. Atty. Gen. Robert B. Hansen. . • ■Scheduled to address the state legal leaders are Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and U.S. Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, Mf. Romney said.drpl of the Sun and Cathedral of the Moon, overlooks of the waterpocket fold abutting into Thousand Lake Mountain and the drive along the Fremont River.For the backpacker it offers a magnificent one or two day trip ,through Muley Twist Canyon, the 'y/alk through Hall’s Gorge, the opportunity for side canyons jutting from Hall's Creek, the waterpocket fold and to the novice hiker it offers good trails to Hickman Natural Bridge, to Whiskey Canyon, to the Golden Throne and short walks .through historic Capitol Gorge and scenic’Grand Wash.-”Mrs. Viavant was even more eloquent in her praise of the proposed addition to the proposed Canyonlands National Park.She recommended a single four-wheel drive corridor be provided to the Land of Standing Rocks and continued to the Doll House Area. : ,“We recommend that the rest of the mage area, outside of this four-wheel drive corridor, should be considered prime wilderness area and should be maintained in its present primitive state,” she said.For the proposed Arches Park she said the Sierra Club recommended “either the retention of the Dry Mesa area down ot the Colorado River or, that failing, the inclusion of the edge of Dry Mesa to the Colorado River.”
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Wed, Jun 16, 1971
Page 18
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