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" MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON SUNDAY. JULY 22, 1962 3 eiland Urges Committee to Adopt Bill to Conserve Wildlife "We fori our wildife and particularly our migratory waterfowl is precious to us for its recreational and result ing economic values," Col. Paul H. Weiland, Medford, told a hearing of the irrigation and reclamation subcommit tee of the House interior and insular affairs committee Fri day in Washington, D. C. Weiland was asked to at tend the hearing by the pres ident of the lzaak Walton League of America to urge passage of Senate Bill 1988 which provides for the conser vation of wildlife on the Pa cific flyway including Tule lake. Lower Klamath and Up per Klamath national wild life refuges in Oregon and Cal ifornia. Colonel Weiland noted that there was a large delegation present opposing the bill. This included C. L. Langslet, rep resenting the Klamath Basin Water Users Protective asso ciation, a representative of the Klamath Irrigation district, and a large rancher of the Klamath area. Weiland was representing the Oregon division of the lzaak Walton League, its Jack son county chapter, the Med ford Gun club, the Oregon Sportsman's club of Jackson county, the Rogue River Val ley Retriever club and many individuals of Klamath and Jackson counties. "This bill is designed to help perpetuate some of this wildlife and to control trends that will diminish or destroy it," Weiland said. "For 10 years or more we have been trying to secure constructive legislation such as S. 1988. We are aware there have been difficulties in man agement of these refuges, par ticularly the Tule lake area. In the past 60 years the vast water and marsh areas of the Tule and Lower Klamath lakes have been reduced al most 87 per cent. Yet, when I visited the U. S. fish and wildlife service headquarters at Tule lake when the duck season opened in 1957, 1 found that the census taken just two days before showed over sev en million waterfowl present and over three million of these were sprig (pintail) ducks prize birds for our hunters. "When one sees the vast numbers of waterfowl in this area, he begins to understand the importance of preserving the vital habitat which holds most of these birds here until late in the fall so as to prevent damage to California crops," he said. "Last Jan. 3, which was the last day of the duck hunting season, there were still many ducks and geese in the grain fields being flooded as part of the management program. So, hunting was good for several weeks in spite of zero tem peratures and snow as high as 18 inches in the fields. "The 6.447 acres of the Straights Line unit, from my observation is used intensive ly by ducks and geese feeding and by thousands of hunters for recreation," Weiland said. He noted the opposition in J their statements had men tioned several times these lands were not used to any extent by the waterfowl, he told the subcommittee. "It is to maintain this vast waterfowl heritage that I have come almost 3,000 miles. It is respectfully requested that you do all in your power to secure enactment of this bill. I appreciate the privilege of appearing before you," he said. Weiland said he was the last person to testify during the last person to testify dur ing the two-day hearing in the nation's rapitot. but fell his presentation was quite effec tive. Object to Statement Colonel Weiland said he and the groups which he rep resents object strongly to a previous statement made by C. L. Langslet. Klamath Falls postmaster and a representa tive of area water-users. Langslet said: "The public lands in Klamath Straits unit within the Klamath drainage district, and on which the dis trict has paid the government for water rights under a 1921 contract, should go into pri-. vale ownership. I "This unit has been a stum-' bling block to orderly devel opment by the very farmers who made it posisble for the U. S. bureau of reclamation to obtain S1.1S3.248 in net lease revenue. Not Practical "It is not practical to de velop a separate district with in a district, the government should pay these land owners an acknowledged debt for construction of facilities to serve these lands out of pres ent accumulated revenues " any amendment that would . primary function of the fish Langslet had added: "Hunt-! provide for the loss of the ' and wildlife service. The two ins r I E h t in nernetnitv i a,rH1K"'s ' private innctions are not always com- i nwnprshin should be retained on this unit, whether it be sold or j Suprimpo Refuget exchanged for private land in i "The present bill superim Lower Klamath lake to block poses refuges on bureau of out that refuge. We have rec-1 reclamation lands subject to ommended exchange to avoid ! the decisions of each succeed putting the private land own-1 ing secretary of interior as to ers there out of business, what is optimum use for agri However, we are agreeable ! culture or wildlife. It pro to other means. ' longs the very issue we wish Colonel Weiland said Satur- settled," Langslet stated, day he told the committee "Certainly the primary that those people he repre- function of reclamation is ag sents and many others oppose riculture, and wildlife, the patible," he added Also attending the hearing were John Stewart, secretary of the Klamath Irrigation dis trict and Dick Henscl, of Tu lana farms in the Klamath area. They represented the agricultural interests. The subcommittee will make its report following the hearing to the Senate commit tee on interior and insular affairs. Then the senate will consider the bill. SHIP IT LflSHE to or from Oakland, San Fran cisco, Lot Angeles and other California points. I j53iS':''z9era'c' r 1 773-7761 rrm The Week in California Out Effort Made to Avoid Strike in Aerospace Industry By United Press International The federal government joined management and labor negotiators last week in an all-out effort to avoid a strike in California's aerospace in dustry. The threatened strike, call ed for the following Monday, involved as many as 125,000 workers at 50 aircraft plants and missile sites, including Vandenberg AFB. Cape Ca naveral also was affected. The nation's lop federal me diation official returned to Washington, D. C, Friday to report personally to Presi dent Kennedy on the status of negotiations. The mediator, William Simkin, also talked with Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who earlier said he had no intention of permit ting a strike to occur without expanding every effort. 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