Wilderness Society 
                     1840 Mintwood Place, Washington, D. C. 
 
 
       WILDERNESS NEWS 
 
                          For Use of Members of the Society 
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        S. 0. S. CALL TO MEMBERS OF WILDERNESS SOCIETY 
        ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK SERIOUSLY ASSAILED 
        AND STANDARDS OF THE PRIMITIVE SYSTEM IN PERIL 
 
 
      Your help is needed at once to save the nation's most celebrated remainders
of 
 
primeval wilderness, those in the National Parks System. 
 
      A rider hung on the Appropriation Bill in the United States Senate
must be 
 
defeated, which, if adopted by the House referees to whom it has been sent,
will 
 
drive a reclamation tunnel and ditch through Rocky Mountain National Park,
and set 
 
the precedent for dispoiling the Standards of all national parks. Such a
tunnel 
 
will break down the basic principle under which national parks are created,
while 
 
sapping Rocky Mountain's lakes and streams. 
 
      We suggest your wiring or airmailing your Senators and Representatives
to 
 
oppose it with all their power; also that you appeal to Secretary Ickes.
      (Phrase 
 
your protests in your own way, different from the phrasing here.) 
 
      Meantime, a bill to tunnel the waters of Yellowstone Lake out to the
ranches of 
 
neighboring states is awaiting in Congress the precedent of this. 
 
 
               Trickiest of all Attempts on National Park Standards. 
 
     This is the trickiest assault on national park standards ever attempted.
Seven 
 
irrigation projects are gathered into the one rider so as to combine upon
each the 
 
political power behind them all and make them hard to separate. And the one
we fight