Interviews

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Glen Bridges, Manager, Columbia Gorge lotel, Hood River.

Russell Brink, Manager, Port of Cascade Locks, Cascade Locks.
Harold Buck, Manager, Multnomah Falls Lodge, Bridal Veil.
James M. Burke, Pacific Economica, Salem.

William Chisholm, General Manager, Gray Line, Portland.
Roger Corwin, Assistant Manager, Hood River Inn, Hood River.
Shirley A. Eads, State Travel Director, Travel Information
Section, Department of Transportation, State of Oregon,
Salem.

Harvey Freer, Curator, Maryhill Museum, Goldendale.

L. E. George, State Highway Traffic Engineer, Department of
Transportation, State of Oregon, Salem (by telephone).

Eric D. Hovee, Economic Development Manager, City of Vancouver, Vancouver.

Eleanor Karlson, Resident, White Salmon.

Thomas F. Kennedy, Director of Tourism, Greater Portland
Convention and Visitors Association, Inc., Portland.
Clyde N. Kirby, Retail Manager, The Fruit Tree, Hood River.
Richard Plainfield, Developer, Proposed North Bonneville Resort
and Convention Center, Portland (by telephone).

Joyce Smith, Assistant Manager, Inn of the White Salmon, White
Salmon.

William Taylor, Assistant Director, Tourism Development Division, Department of Commerce and Economic Development, State of Washington, Olympia.

Allan Warman, Director, Mid-Columbia Economic Development
District, The Dalles.

Kurt Wehbring, David M. Dornbusch and Company, Inc., Portland.

William Wiley, Manager, Visitors Center, Bonneville Dam,

Cascade Locks.

Reference Materials

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ArchiSystems, Resort Development Potential in The Mid-Columbia
Gorge, no date.

ArchiSystems, Tourism Development Potential in The Mid-Columbia
River Gorge, December 15, 1977.

Wilbur D. Conder, Economic Impact of Tourism, Recreation and Travel Traffic: Mid-Columbia E.D.D., September 1, 1971. David M. Dornbusch and Company, Inc., Walker, Macy and Erickson and Bierly and Associates, Inc., Mount St. Helens Interpretation and Recreation Plan, August 1981.

Governor's Economic Recovery Council, Governor's Economic
Recovery Council Report, June 1, 1982.

Governor's Select Committee on The Columbia River Gorge, Findings, Recommendations and Elements of a Management Alternative for The Columbia River Gorge, December 1981.

GMA Research Corporation, Pacific Northwest Regional Commission
Brochure Conversion Study, February 1980.

Leonard Guss, Associates, Inc., Employment Displacement in Skamania County: An Economic Development Strategy for Skamania County, Washington, January 1980.

Jones and Jones, Columbia River Gorge Study, November 1981. Morton I. Michelson, An Inventory and Analysis of Tourist and Recreation Facilities in The Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, 1971.

National Park Service, National Park Statistical Abstract, 1979.

Oregon Department of Transportation, Financial Planning and
Economics Unit Policy and Planning Section, 1981 Out-of-
State Travel Revenue Report.

Oregon Department of Transportation, Travel Information Section, 1981 Tourist Interview Survey.

Oregon Department of Transportation, Travel Information Section, 1981 Travel Advertising Study.

Pacific Economica, Inc. and CRS Group Engineers, Inc., Hood River County An Analysis of Alternative Economic Futures, November 1981.

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Pannell, Kerr, Forster, Trends in The Hotel Industry in the Pacific Northwest, 1981 Edition.

Sales Marketing Management, 1981 Survey of Buying Power, July 27, 1981.

Sales and Marketing Management, 1982 Survey of Buying Power,
July 26, 1982.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, 1977 Census of Retail Trade, Oregon, June 1979.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, 1977 Census of Retail Trade, Washington, April 1979.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, 1980 Census of Population, Number of Inhabitants, Oregon, December 1981.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, Advance

Reports, 1980 Census of Population and Housing, Washington.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, County Business Patterns 1979, Oregon, May 1981.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of The Census, County Business Patterns 1979, Washington, May 1981.

U. S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Creating Economic Growth and Jobs Through Travel and Tourism, February 1981.

U. S. Department of The Interior, National Park Service, Columbia River Gorge, Study of Alternatives, April, 1980.

U. S. Travel Data Center, The Economic Impact of Travel on Pacific Northwest Counties, A Study Prepared for the Pacific Northwest Regional Commission, July 1979.

State of Washington, Department of Commerce and Economic Development, 1982 Tourism Program, Washington The State.

Kurt Wehbring and Vivian Kahn, Upper Snoqualmie River Basin Economic Base Study, November 1981.

Senator EVANS. Thank you. We'll wait until we get to our questions and answers, then we can do that. We'll attach the documents you have attached as part of the record except for the one that repeats a hearing of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, we'll make a reference to that, because that's already in the record.

With that, if I'd looked up instead of down at my list, I would have know Yvonne Montchalin. Yvonne, delighted to have you.

STATEMENT OF YVONNE MONTCHALIN, FRIENDS OF THE
COLUMBIA GORGE

Ms. MONTCHALIN. Thank you for your patience and your stamina. I'm Yvonne Montchalin, and have been a resident of Skamania County for more than 30 years until recently, when I move into eastern Clark County near Washougal. I have retained my real property holdings in Skamania County. They are located across the Columbia River from Mulnomah Falls.

The sensitive beauty of the magnificent gorge of the Columbia River is under constant and repeated threat of being despoiled through ill-advised development, development occurring on all levels of government-local, State, and Federal.

There are more than 50 separate governmental agencies which have various degrees of responsibility for land use planning and the management of the lands lying on both shores of the Columbia River. No one of these agencies can presently furnish needed protection.

Recently, the 65-acre, proposed, 21-lot, Rizor sub-division was halted only by a suit filed by private citizens, of whom I was one. The development was approved by the Skamania County officials as short plats in direct violation of Washington State law. The suit was settled with the entering of a stipulated judgment in favor of plaintiffs. The Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit, San Franciscobased organization has since purchased the tract.

Another proposed development lies approximately miles west of Beacon Rock. The Yound Land Trust proposal consists of 83 lots to be located upon 78.5 acres of undeveloped wetlands and shoreline. The majority of the lots are to be served with septic tanks. This development has been approved by the Skamania County Planning Commission and the Skamania County Board of County Commissioners. Citizens have now appealed that approval to the Shoreline Hearing Board.

The State of Oregon last year attempted to sell Hood River's Ruthton Park to the highest bidder. The matter was resolved in an agreement reached between the State and Hood River County Commissioners.

Similarly, the State of Washington attempted to trade 40 acres of Beacon Rock State Park to the Department of Transportation, which department planned to sell the tract to the highest bidder. Interested citizens rallied in opposition to the action and it was withdrawn from consideration.

Federal policy has encouraged incompatible projects in some of the most pristine areas of the gorge. One example is a $5.5 million