Number: 1979-12
WHEREAS, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, has agreed to satisfy a court order by developing environmental impact statements to cover 145 grazing districts on nearly 174 million acres of land in the eleven contiguous western states over the next ten years; and
WHEREAS, the environmental impact statements, in effect, will constitute land plans for these grazing districts; and
WHEREAS, these statements and plans list alternatives for the management of these highly valuable public lands;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 22-25, 1979, in Toronto, Ontario, hereby expresses the conviction that these plans should consider all multiple uses and resources of the public lands, including fish and wildlife, and the associated recreations of hunting, fishing, trapping and related activities such as camping and hiking; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization hereby calls upon interested and concerned citizens in the West and other parts of the United States to study all alternatives developed in these environmental impact statements with the view towards expressing their viewpoints in public hearings and/or written statements in order that special economic interests will not be allowed to dominate consideration of these various management plans and thwart elimination of overgrazing