Number: 1978-30
WHEREAS, channelization of streams by federal construction agencies is destructive to fish and wildlife habitat and degrades water quality; and
WHEREAS, studies of channelization have shown the practice to be one of the least successful methods of controlling floods; and
WHEREAS, federal construction agencies have channelized without regard for recommendations by federal and state wildlife agencies;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 16-19, 1978, in Phoenix, Ariz., hereby urgently recommends that the Army Corps of Engineers work closely with the Fish and Wildlife Service in developing mutually-acceptable guidelines similar to those recently adopted by the Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which give maximum consideration to fish and wildlife habitat values in channelization or other practices which alter streams, implementing proper soil and water conservation practices as mandated by the Congress.