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 ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-31   WHEREAS, the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge was established to provide needed habitat for migratory waterfowl as well as important fishery resources; and WHEREAS, efforts in 1974 to designate large areas of the Refuge and lands owned by the Army Corps of Engineers as wilderness were opposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Inter ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-20   WHEREAS, the Cooperative Extension Service, composed of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Extension Service and the Cooperative Extension Service of each State, provides to private landowners and others many valuable educational services through land grant universities pursuant to the Smith-Lever Act (of May 8, 1914); and WHEREAS, activities of the Cooperative Exten ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-21   WHEREAS, the scenic Upper Mississippi River Basin presently provides significant wildlife habitat and an excellent fishery, and is the location of two national wildlife refuges; and WHEREAS, increased barge traffic in the Upper Basin would threaten these major natural resource values by increasing dredging and dredge disposal for channel maintenance and by intensifying strea ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-37   WHEREAS, wise use of natural resources and protection of our environment is a matter of great importance to all Americans; and WHEREAS, all programs and activities to conserve resources and enhance environmental quality are dependent upon an informed and supportive citizenry; and WHEREAS, environmental education–both formal school and informal public informational prog ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-02   WHEREAS, the national policy to fully develop the substantial energy and mineral resources of the western United States will require enormous amounts of scarce water, thereby jeopardizing existing uses of water, including instream flows for fish and wildlife; and WHEREAS, opportunities are available under both state and federal law to reserve or appropriate for the benefit o ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-12   WHEREAS, hydroelectric dams are responsible for serious water quality problems, including the creation of low dissolved oxygen and supersaturated atmospheric gas conditions in reservoirs and tailwaters; and WHEREAS, the existence of these conditions is responsible for periodic episodes of fish mortality and morbidity; and WHEREAS, the federal government has not undertaken to ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-36   WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that the State of California is without authority to regulate Indian fishing on the Klamath River Reservations; and WHEREAS, fishing regulations established by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, for the 1977 season were unenforceable and fishing essentially was unregulated; and WHEREAS, intensive ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-09   WHEREAS, the number of miles of electric transmission lines and the number of acres of land lying within electric transmission rights-of-way are continuing to expand rapidly; and WHEREAS, in many instances, it appears that lands within existing and new electric transmission facilities could be managed in ways to enhance their value as wildlife habitat; and WHEREAS, voltages ...[Read More]

Number: 1978-04   WHEREAS, the costs in terms of losses of lives and property from flooding have risen steadily over the years despite structural flood control projects; and WHEREAS, the National Flood Insurance Program was instituted in 1968 as a nonstructural alternative to flood damage control and to relieve the federal government as taxpayers of part of the costs associated with flooding ...[Read More]