CONTENTS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Bagley, George R., vice president, National Association of Conservation Page Blackwelder, Brent, representing Friends of the Earth__ Prepared statement_ 326 327 Buie. Eugene C., Assistant Deputy Administrator for Watershed Planning, 43 --- Burdick, George E 408 Callison, Charles H., executive vice president, National Audubon Society-- 213 280 284 Dailey, Richard, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Watershed Opera- 43 43 Prepared statement__ 202 Sims, Ivan H., Wildlife Society of Washington, D.C.--.-. Towell. William E., executive vice president, American Forestry Watts, Calvin, executive vice president, Red River Valley Association... 423 ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND MATERIAL Foundation To Insure Stream Habitats, letter to Senator Jordan..... Hatfield, Hon. Mark O., U.S. Senator from the State of Oregon: Appendix-Continued Page Rawls. Artie, Washington, N.C., letter to Senator Jordan__. 438 Wildlife Society, The, North Dakota Chapter, statement of___ Buckley, Hon. James L., U.S. Senator from the State of New York: 442 Wall Street Journal, July 19, 1971, reprint of article from entitled "Waterway Wrangle-Federal Soil Service Stirs Ecologist's Ire by Blackwelder, Brent, statement of... 326 336 Reed, Nathaniel P., Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wild- life, and Parks, statement before the House Subcommittee on Con- Corps of Engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers, report of, dated August 12, 1969, "A National Assessment of Streambank Erosion".. Congressional Record, May 18, 1971, "Streambank Erosion" ____ Soil Conservation, January 1968, "Streambank Erosion: A Wide- spread Problem Too Big for a Landowner To Handle Alone". St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press, Jan. 31, 1971, reprint of article 309 Congressional Record, May 18, 1971, "Streambank Erosion". Greensboro (Ala.) Watchman. Aug. 12, 1971, "Watershed Program Stirs Ire of Hale County Property Owners".. Landscape Architecture Magazine. April 1971, "Destruction Value- How To Charge Developers for the Environmental Destruction They Science Magazine, July 23, 1971, "Channelization: A Case Study"._____ 273 Problem Too Big for a Landowner To Handle Alone". St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press, "Watch on the Upper Mississippi".... Washington, N.C. Daily News, July 20, 1971, "Officials Fearful: Water 312 West Tennessee tributaries (Obion and Forked Deer Rivers), environ- mental statement of 14 THE EFFECT OF CHANNELIZATION ON THE TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1971 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL RIVERS AND HARBORS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 4200 New Senate Office Building, Senator B. Everett Jordan (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Jordan of North Carolina and Buckley. Also present: Joseph F. Van Vladricken, professional staff member. Senator JORDAN. The subcommittee will come to order. The purpose of the hearing this morning is to receive testimony from interested persons regarding the environmental impact of water resource channel improvement projects. In view of the large number of persons desiring to be heard on this matter, I am requesting that each witness be as brief as possible. Of course, all statements will be included in the record in their entirety. Our first witness will be Maj. Gen. F. P. Koisch, Director of Civil Works Office, Chief of Engineers. Following General Koisch's testimony, we will hear from Mr. Kenneth E. Grant, Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service. Later this morning we will have testimony from a number of conservation and water resource organizations. General, Senator Buckley is with us and he has a statement he wants to make with some observations, and we will be glad to have you follow after Senator Buckley. STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES L. BUCKLEY, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK Senator BUCKLEY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In light of the number of witnesses I would like to read a couple of paragraphs and then submit the balance of my statement to be included in the record if that would meet with your approval. I understand that the principal purpose of this hearing is to examine the parliamentary impact of stream channelization, and I look forward to the testimony which we will be hearing on this important subject. We as a society are just beginning to acquire adequate awareness of the complexity of all those natural relationships which are summed up in the word "ecology." We are just beginning to understand the unforeseen consequences that so often follow upon man's best intentions. |