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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Draft Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13490 Folder ID Number: 13490-010 Folder Title: Teton Science School 6/13/89 [1] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 25 6 3 3 Document No. 043343 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 06/09/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 89 JUN 9 P6: 45 PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS SUBJECT: GRAND TETONS NATIONAL PARK (06/09 2:00 p.m. draft five) ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN > ROGERS CARD P PINKERTON CICCONI WINSTON DEMAREST , FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: The attached has been forwarded to the President. RESPONSE: James W. Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 9, 1989 INFORMATION MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT THROUGH: DAVID DEMAREST FROM: EDWARD E. McNALLY SUBJECT: REMARKS IN GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK I. SUMMARY On Tuesday morning, June 13, you will be giving a speech in the Grand Teton National Park on your hopes and plans for a cleaner environment. The audience of approximately 2,000 tourists and residents of Jackson, Wyoming will be assembled in a meadow outside the Teton Science School. The Teton Mountain range will appear behind you. II. DISCUSSION The day before this speech, you will have announced your proposal for renewal of the Clean Air Act. You will have also viewed the fire damage in Yellowstone National Park and spent the night with George P. on the shores of Jackson Lake. This speech is intended to show your commitment -- in a visually compelling way -- to the idea that "every American has the right to breathe clean air." (McNally/Simon) June 9, 1989, 2:00 p.m. Draft Five (TETONS) PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS GRAND TETONS NATIONAL PARK TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989, 8:45 A.M. Thank you, Secretary Lujan, for that warm introduction. And thank you also for one of the best birthday presents anybody in the state of Wyoming ever got -- an evening with my grandson, fishing on Jackson Lake. Maybe you know the classic line from the Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." [[PAUSE]] And it's a good thing. Because we sure didn't catch any fish. And it's always good to see my other fishing buddy, Al Simpson, and my friend Malcolm Wallop. But I was a little surprised to see them here in the Tetons to look at wildlife. You'd think they'd see enough of that in Congress. Yesterday, I announced our proposals to improve the Clean Air Act. But protecting the environment requires good people as well as good laws. And I'm especially pleased to announce today that my nominee for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of Wyoming's own. His Triangle X ranch is just up the road, he is president of the state senate, and he's here with us today -- Senator John Turner. It's well known here that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808 Colter was captured by the locals and -- 2 stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- with sore feet and a sunburned back. [[PAUSE]] Today, George P. and I are awful glad Wyoming's attitude towards visitors is -- what's the phrase? -- kinder, gentler. We meet in the heart of an environmental success story. Part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California, set aside as a preserve, and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. Creating national parks was an American idea -- an idea imitated around the world. And it was one of our best. Five generations of Americans have since enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact natural area in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday I stood in the East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breath -- from coast to coast -- and beyond. For another five generations -- and beyond. And today, with my back to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on Congress -- to join me in this new initiative for Clean Air. I've said it before, when talking about issues such as drug abuse, crime and national security: The most fundamental obligation of government is to protect the people -- the people's 3 health, the people's safety, and, ultimately, our family values and traditions. Nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, of campfire tales of brave Sioux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, of range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. Just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the settings in the epic Western, Lonesome Dove. The book begins with the famous passage from T.K. Whipple: "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed -- we live. And what they lived -- we dream." Frontier legends have filled America's movie screens -- and America's imagination -- for most of this century. But the frontier is not the end of the road. It is our inspiration. The frontiers we face in the final decade leading to the year 2000 are different from those our forefathers faced in the mountains and meadows of the American Rockies. What we face are the frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. Let's cross them. 4 Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back. " Time dubbed spaceship Earth "the Planet of the Year. " And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell -- they helped provide the jolt we needed. Some say we are running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left -- but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the cold war begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156 foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East- West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves rocked with a five hour benefit concert -- broadcast around the 5 world from New York, London and Brazil -- for environmental challenges and our common future. Many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. Congress has been deadlocked on Clean Air for a long time. When my proposals pass, it will mark the first improvements in the Act in 12 years. Other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. There's been gridlock. I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business, energy, mining and chemical groups, and Members of Congress. I met with people like you here today, who share my passion for the outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major environmental group in America. I've listened to these competing voices -- sometimes strident, sometimes thoughtful, always well-intentioned. Now, none of the special interest groups are going to get everything they wanted. Some say we're asking too much, too fast. Others say not enough, too slow. But today, there's some important common ground. Because there's one thing everyone agrees on: We need action. And we need it now. It is the right -- the right -- of every American to breathe clean air. And you 6 damned well shouldn't have to drive two thousand miles to do it. Environmental gridlock must end. Now, this isn't the first time Congress has had to struggle with questions about the kind of America we are going to bequeath to our children. And it's not even the first time the debate was carried right into the Tetons. More than one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. [[PAUSE]] No, Marlin. That would not work on Air Force One. On August 5th, the train stopped about a hundred miles south of here, at the banks of the Green River, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River valley. There the roads ended. And there began a 350 mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone. Winding through Jackson Hole, he was followed by nearly 200 pack animals and 75 calvary troops. [[PAUSE]] All of a sudden a Secret Service motorcade doesn't sound so bad. President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and -- unlike me -- 105 pounds of trout. You know how the story ended. You are looking at it -- a scene so unspoiled it is little different from the view John Colter first saw in 1808. 7 And yet, today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It can follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog, and toxic emissions. To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions [in half -- by 10 million tons -- before the century is out.] To reduce smog, our plan will establish bottom line standards for businesses -- but refrain from federal "micro- management" of how those standards are met. We are also going to bring most cities back into compliance with Clean Air standards. And on toxins, my plan will reduce industrial emissions of cancer-causing agents. Wherever the next generation may find your children, our goal is nothing less than an America where all air breathes as clean as morning in the Rockies. 8 June marks the beginning of summer. A family time. A time of remembrance and tradition. An estimated 290 million visitors will come to America's national parks this year -- and yes, I know it sometimes seems like most of them are camped out at your campsite. And with each new day, American families clamber across the craggy trails above us, around Jenny Lake and Paintbrush Canyon, and the aptly-named Rock of Ages. Hands young and old press against the hard basement rock -- exposed by the elements and nearly as ancient as the Earth itself -- touching the past, testing their future. People return from these spaces rejuvenated, confident, somehow younger. America's National Parks are also living laboratories, where our boundless curiosity is challenged by nature's unbridled forces. Robin Winks, a professor at one of those eastern, Ivy League schools -- Yale -- has said that "Our parks are universities." They are a whole world of wonder, where family and friends can watch nature at work. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. They have a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong." We stand in the shadow of the Tetons -- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it is not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond, George P. and I. It was up 9 there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans -- up there in the stars. And as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw again the one frontier beyond the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, find new solutions, dream new dreams. Look upon these American peaks -- and at the American people around you -- and remember. We have hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. # # # 22 22 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 9, 1989 89 JUN MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON FROM: ROGER B. PORTER SUBJECT: Presidential Remarks: Wyoming Environmental Address The draft environmental remarks are well written and capture the majesty of the Tetons. The only concern we have is that the proper statements detailing the President's decisions on the clean air package are appropriately inserted. CC: James W. Cicconi Document No. 043343 WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM DATE: 06/08/89 ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 10:00 a.m. Friday 06/09 PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS SUBJECT: (06/08 2:00 p.m. draft three) ACTION FYI ACTION FYI VICE PRESIDENT MCCLURE SUNUNU NEWMAN SCOWCROFT PORTER DARMAN STUDDERT BATES UNTERMEYER BREEDEN ROGERS CARD PINKERTON CICCONI WINSTON DEMAREST FITZWATER GRAY HAGIN REMARKS: Please provide any comments/recommendations directly to Chriss Winston (Rm. 122, x2930) by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, with an info copy to my office. Thanks. RESPONSE: James W. Cicconi Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff Ext. 2702 (McNally/Simon) June 8, 1989, 2:00 Draft Three (TETONS) PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS GRAND TETONS NATIONAL PARK TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989, 8:45 A.M. Thank you, Secretary Lujan, for that warm introduction. And thank you also for one of the best birthday presents anybody in the state of Wyoming ever got -- an evening with my grandson, fishing on Jackson Lake. Maybe you know the classic line from the Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." [[PAUSE]] And it's a good thing. Because we sure didn't catch any trout. And it's always good to see my other fishing buddy, Al Simpson, and my friend Malcolm Wallop. But I was a little surprised to see them here in the Tetons to look at wildlife. You'd think they'd see enough of that in Congress. It's well known here that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808 Colter was captured by the locals and -- stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- with sore feet and a sunburned back. [[PAUSE]] Today, George P. and I are awful glad Wyoming's attitude towards visitors is -- what's the phrase? -- kinder, gentler. We meet in the heart of an environmental success story. Part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted 2 Yosemite Valley to California, to set aside as a preserve, and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. Creating national parks was an American idea -- an idea imitated around the world. And it was one of our best. Since these lands were set aside, five generations of Americans have enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday I stood in the East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breath -- from coast to coast -- and beyond. For another five generations -- and beyond. And today, with my back to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on Congress -- to join me in this new initiative to make a better world. Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back. " Time dubbed spaceship Earth "the Planet of the Year. " And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell -- they helped provide the jolt we needed. I've said it before, when talking about issues such as drug abuse, crime and national security: The most fundamental obligation of government is to protect the people -- the people's 3 health, the people's safety, and, ultimately, our family values and traditions. Nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, of campfire tales of brave Sioux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, of range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. Just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the settings in the epic Western, Lonesome Dove. The book begins with the famous passage from T.K. Whipple: "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed -- we live. And what they lived -- we dream." Frontier legends have filled America's movie screens -- and America's imagination -- for most of this century. But the frontier is not the end of the road. It is our inspiration. The frontiers we face in the final decade leading to the year 2000 are different from those our forefathers faced in the mountains and meadows of the American Rockies. What we face are the frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. Let's cross them. 4 Some say we are running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left -- but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the cold war begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156 foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East- West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves were filled with a five hour concert telecast -- broadcast around the world from New York, London and Brazil -- on environmental challenges and our common future. Many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. 5 Congress has been deadlocked on Clean Air for a long time. When my proposals pass, it will mark the first improvements in the Act in 12 years. Other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. There's been gridlock. I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business, energy, mining and chemical groups. I met with people like you here today, who share my passion for the outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major environmental group in America. I've listened to these competing voices -- sometimes strident, sometimes thoughtful, always well-intentioned. Now, none of the special interest groups are going to get everything they wanted. Some say we're asking too much, too fast. Others say not enough, too slow. But today, there's some important common ground. Because there's one thing everyone agrees on: We need action. And we need it now. It is the right -- the right -- of every American to breath clean air. And you damned well shouldn't have to drive two thousand miles to do it. Environmental gridlock must end. Now, this isn't the first time Congress has had to struggle with questions about the kind of America we are going to bequeath to our children. And it's not even the first time the debate was carried right into the Tetons. 6 More than one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. [[PAUSE]] No, Marlin. That would not work on Air Force One. On August 5th, the train stopped at the banks of the North Platte, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River valley. There the roads ended. And there began a 350 mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone, followed by 175 pack animals and two calvary troops. [[PAUSE]] All of a sudden a Secret Service motorcade doesn't sound so bad. President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and -- unlike me -- 105 pounds of trout. You know how the story ended. You are looking at it -- a scene so unspoiled it is little different from the view John Colter first saw in 1808. And yet, today the Tetons are again threatened by development. And this time the threat comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible acids that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away 7 from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It's starting to follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog, and toxic emissions. To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions in half -- by 10 million tons -- before the century is out. To reduce smog, our plan will establish bottom line standards for businesses -- but refrain from "micro-managing" the way those standards are met -- and bring most cities into compliance with Clean Air standards by [1995]. And on toxins, we will reduce industrial emissions of cancer-causing agents by [75 to 90] percent. Wherever the next generation may find your children, our goal is nothing less than an America where all air breathes as clean as morning in the Rockies. June marks the beginning of summer. A family time. A time of remembrance and tradition. An estimated 290 million visitors will come to America's national parks this year -- and yes, I know it sometimes seems like most of them are camped out at your campsite. And with each new day, American families clamber across the craggy trails above us, around Jenny Lake and Paintbrush Canyon, and the aptly-named Rock of Ages. Hands young 8 and old press against the hard basement rock -- exposed by the elements and nearly as ancient as the Earth itself -- touching the past, testing their future. People return from these spaces rejuvenated, confident, somehow younger. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. There is a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong." We stand in the shadow of the Tetons -- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it is not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond, George P. and I. It was up there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans -- up there in the stars. And as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw again the one frontier beyond the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, new solutions. We were reminded recently of the potential -- still struggling to get beyond theory -- of fusion power and superconductivity at room temperature. Look upon these American peaks -- and at the American people around you -- and remember. We have hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. # # # FICE PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989 8:45 A.M. THANK YOU, SECRETARY LUJAN, FOR THAT WARM INTRODUCTION. AND THANK YOU ALSO FOR ONE OF THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENTS ANYBODY IN THE STATE OF WYOMING EVER GOT -- AN EVENING WITH MY GRANDSON [[FISHING]] ON JACKSON LAKE. - 2 - [ [MAYBE YOU KNOW THE CLASSIC LINE FROM THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: "THERE IS NOTHING -- ABSOLUTELY NOTHING - - HALF so MUCH WORTH DOING AS SIMPLY MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS." [[PAUSE]] AND IT'S A GOOD THING. BECAUSE WE SURE DIDN'T CATCH ANY FISH. ]] AND IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE MY OTHER FISHING BUDDY, AL SIMPSON, AND MY FRIEND MALCOLM WALLOP. You KNOW, YESTERDAY I ANNOUNCED OUR PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE THE CLEAN AIR AcT. - 3 - BUT PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT REQUIRES GOOD PEOPLE AS WELL AS GOOD LAWS. AND I'M ESPECIALLY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE TODAY THAT MY NOMINEE FOR DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE IS ONE OF WYOMING'S OWN. HIS TRIANGLE X RANCH IS JUST UP THE ROAD, HE IS PRESIDENT OF THE STATE SENATE, AND HE'S HERE WITH US TODAY -- SENATOR JOHN TURNER. - 4 - IT'S WELL KNOWN HERE THAT WYOMING'S FIRST TOURIST WAS A TRAPPER NAMED JOHN COLTER, A VETERAN OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. IN 1808 COLTER WAS CAPTURED BY THE LOCALS AND -- STRIPPED NAKED AND HOTLY PURSUED -- GIVEN A CHANCE TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE. SEVEN DAYS LATER HE ARRIVED AT A SPANISH FORT -- WITH SORE FEET AND A SUNBURNED BACK. [[PAUSE]] TODAY, GEORGE P. AND I ARE AWFUL GLAD WYOMING'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS VISITORS IS -- WHAT'S THE PHRASE? -- KINDER, GENTLER. - 5 - WE MEET IN THE HEART OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESS STORY. PART OF A TRADITION THAT BEGAN WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN GRANTED YOSEMITE VALLEY TO CALIFORNIA, SET ASIDE AS A PRESERVE, AND CONTINUED THROUGH TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND OTHERS WHO FOUND INSPIRATION IN THESE MAJESTIC AMERICAN PEAKS. CREATING NATIONAL PARKS WAS AN AMERICAN IDEA -- AN IDEA IMITATED AROUND THE WORLD. AND IT WAS ONE OF OUR BEST. - 6 - FIVE GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE SINCE ENJOYED YELLOWSTONE AND THE TETONS -- THE LARGEST INTACT NATURAL AREA IN THE TEMPERATE ZONES OF THE EARTH. AND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON I TOURED THE FIRE AREAS NORTH OF HERE -- SAW HOW YELLOWSTONE IS COMING BACK -- AND MARVELED AT NATURE'S REGENERATIVE POWER. BUT -- WHETHER RESTORING A FOREST, OR THE AIR THAT FLOWS ABOVE IT -- NATURE NEEDS OUR HELP. - 7 - AND YESTERDAY I STOOD IN THE EAST ROOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO ANNOUNCE A PROPOSAL DESIGNED TO ENSURE WE DO OUR PART TO IMPROVE AND PRESERVE OUR NATURAL HERITAGE - - THE VERY AIR WE BREATHE -- FROM COAST TO COAST -- AND BEYOND. FOR ANOTHER FIVE GENERATIONS -- AND BEYOND. - 8 - AND TODAY, WITH MY BACK TO THE PACIFIC AND THE JEWELS OF THE AMERICAN ROCKIES, I LOOK EAST ACROSS THIS FERTILE AND PRODUCTIVE LAND AND CALL ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- AND ON CONGRESS -- TO JOIN ME IN THIS NEW INITIATIVE FOR CLEAN AIR. - 9 - I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, WHEN TALKING ABOUT ISSUES SUCH AS DRUG ABUSE, CRIME AND NATIONAL SECURITY: THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL OBLIGATION OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE -- THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH, THE PEOPLE'S SAFETY, AND, ULTIMATELY, OUR FAMILY VALUES AND TRADITIONS. NOWHERE ARE THESE TRADITIONS MORE REAL -- MORE ALIVE -- THAN HERE IN THE WESTERN REACHES OF WYOMING. - 10 - IT IS A LAND OF LEGEND, OF CAMPFIRE TALES OF BRAVE SIOUX WARRIORS, OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, OF RANGE WARS BETWEEN CATTLEMEN AND SHEEP RANCHERS. JUST OVER THAT RIDGE TO THE EAST LIES THE HEADWATERS OF THE WIND RIVER, ONE OF THE SETTINGS IN THE EPIC WESTERN, LONESOME DOVE. THE BOOK BEGINS WITH THE FAMOUS PASSAGE FROM T.K. WHIPPLE: - 11 - "ALL AMERICA LIES AT THE END OF THE WILDERNESS ROAD, AND OUR PAST IS NOT A DEAD PAST, BUT STILL LIVES IN US. OUR FOREFATHERS HAD CIVILIZATION INSIDE THEMSELVES, THE WILD OUTSIDE. WE LIVE IN THE CIVILIZATION THEY CREATED, BUT WITHIN US THE WILDERNESS STILL LINGERS. WHAT THEY DREAMED -- WE LIVE. AND WHAT THEY LIVED -- WE DREAM." - 12 - FRONTIER LEGENDS HAVE FILLED AMERICA'S MOVIE SCREENS -- AND AMERICA'S IMAGINATION -- FOR MOST OF THIS CENTURY. BUT THE FRONTIER IS NOT THE END OF THE ROAD. IT IS OUR INSPIRATION. THE FRONTIERS WE FACE IN THE FINAL DECADE LEADING TO THE YEAR 2000 ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OUR FOREFATHERS FACED IN THE MOUNTAINS AND MEADOWS OF THE AMERICAN ROCKIES. - 13 - WHAT WE FACE ARE THE FRONTIERS OF THE MIND -- SCIENTIFIC, GEOGRAPHIC, CULTURAL -- THAT REMAIN TO BE CROSSED. LET'S CROSS THEM. LAST SUMMER, I CALLED 1988 "THE YEAR THE EARTH SPOKE BACK." TIME DUBBED SPACESHIP EARTH "THE PLANET OF THE YEAR." - 14 - AND ALTHOUGH, ULTIMATELY, MEDICAL WASTE ON BEACHES OR THAT WANDERING GARBAGE BARGE MAY NOT PRESENT AS GRAVE A DANGER AS THE OZONE HOLES THAT WE CANNOT SEE, TOUCH OR SMELL -- THEY HELPED PROVIDE THE JOLT WE NEEDED. SOME SAY WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. WRONG. THE ONLY THING WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF IS IMAGINATION -- AND THE WILL TO BRING WHAT WE CAN IMAGINE TO LIFE. - 15 - YES, THERE IS A NEW BREEZE BLOWING. AND BORNE UPON THAT WIND IS A NEW BREED OF ENVIRONMENTALISM. OUR MISSION IS NOT JUST TO DEFEND WHAT'S LEFT -- BUT TO TAKE THE OFFENSE, TO IMPROVE OUR ENVIRONMENT ACROSS THE BOARD. BUT IT CANNOT BE AN AMERICAN EFFORT ALONE. As I SAID IN EUROPE LAST MONTH, ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION KNOWS NO BORDERS. - 16 - AND AS THE MISTRUST OF THE COLD WAR BEGINS TO GIVE WAY TO A NEW RECOGNITION OF OUR COMMON INTERESTS, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES OFFER MODEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR COOPERATION. LAST FALL, TWO WHALES WERE SAVED OFF AMERICAN SHORES BY A SOVIET ICEBREAKER, A JAPANESE-BUILT TRACTOR -- AND A GROUP OF DETERMINED AMERICAN ESKIMOS WITH SAWS AND BOATHOOKS. YES, THERE IS A NEW BREEZE BLOWING. - 17 - AND AS WE SPEAK IT IS CARRYING A 156 FOOT SCHOONER FROM THE STATUE OF LIBERTY TO LENINGRAD, AN EAST-WEST VOYAGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. AND A WEEK AGO THE AIRWAVES ROCKED WITH A FIVE HOUR BENEFIT CONCERT -- BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD FROM NEW YORK, LONDON AND BRAZIL -- FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES AND OUR COMMON FUTURE. - 18 - MANY SUCH INTERNATIONAL EVENTS ARE SYMBOLIC. BUT HERE AT HOME, THE SUBSTANCE AWAITS. IT'S IN MY NEW PROPOSALS TO CONGRESS -- PROPOSALS FOR CLEANER AIR, FOR AN END TO ACID RAIN, URBAN SMOG, AND OTHER TOXIC EMISSIONS. CONGRESS HAS BEEN DEADLOCKED ON CLEAN AIR FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN MY PROPOSALS PASS, IT WILL MARK THE FIRST IMPROVEMENTS IN THE Act IN 12 YEARS. OTHER ATTEMPTS HAVE FAILED. - 19 - COMPETING INTERESTS HAVE JAMMED THE AVENUE TO ACTION. THERE'S BEEN GRIDLOCK. I UNDERSTAND THE TRAFFIC JAM. BEFORE DECIDING ON THESE PROPOSALS, I MET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF BUSINESS, ENERGY, MINING AND CHEMICAL GROUPS, AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. I MET WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU HERE TODAY, WHO SHARE MY PASSION FOR THE OUTDOORS. AND JUST LAST THURSDAY I SAT DOWN WITH THE LEADERS OF EVERY MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP IN AMERICA. - 20 - I'VE LISTENED TO THESE COMPETING VOICES -- SOMETIMES STRIDENT, SOMETIMES THOUGHTFUL, ALWAYS WELL- INTENTIONED. Now, NO GROUP IS GOING TO GET EVERYTHING IT WANTS. SOME SAY WE'RE ASKING TOO MUCH, TOO FAST. OTHERS SAY NOT ENOUGH, TOO SLOW. BUT TODAY, THERE'S SOME IMPORTANT COMMON GROUND. BECAUSE THERE'S ONE THING EVERYONE AGREES ON: WE NEED ACTION. AND WE NEED IT NOW. EVERY AMERICAN DESERVES TO BREATHE CLEAN AIR. - 21 - AND YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE TWO THOUSAND MILES HERE TO DO IT. ENVIRONMENTAL GRIDLOCK MUST END. Now, THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME CONGRESS HAS HAD TO STRUGGLE WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE KIND OF AMERICA WE ARE GOING TO BEQUEATH TO OUR CHILDREN. AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE FIRST TIME THE DEBATE WAS CARRIED RIGHT INTO THE TETONS. - 22 - MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IN THE SUMMER OF 1883, A STORM WAS BREWING IN CONGRESS OVER THE FUTURE OF THE PARKS. AND PRESIDENT CHESTER ARTHUR BOARDED A TRAIN HEADED WEST. IN CHICAGO, THEY WARNED THAT ANY REPORTERS WHO FOLLOWED WOULD BE DROPPED OFF THE NEXT RAILROAD BRIDGE. [[PAUSE]] No, MARLIN. THAT WOULD NOT WORK ON AIR FORCE ONE. - 23 - ON AUGUST 5TH, THE TRAIN STOPPED ABOUT A HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF HERE, AT THE BANKS OF THE GREEN RIVER, AND THEY EMBARKED BY MULE WAGON FOR THE WIND RIVER VALLEY. THERE THE ROADS ENDED. AND THERE BEGAN A 350 MILE ODYSSEY BY HORSEBACK, AS THE PRESIDENT TRAVERSED THE TETONS AND YELLOWSTONE. WINDING THROUGH JACKSON HOLE, HE WAS FOLLOWED BY NEARLY 200 PACK ANIMALS AND 75 CALVARY TROOPS. [[PAUSE]] ALL OF A SUDDEN A SECRET SERVICE MOTORCADE DOESN'T SOUND so BAD. - 24 - PRESIDENT ARTHUR EMERGED FROM THE TETONS AND RETURNED TO WASHINGTON WITH A NEW VISION OF THE WEST, AND -- UNLIKE ME -- 105 POUNDS OF TROUT. You KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDED. You ARE LOOKING AT IT -- A SCENE SO UNSPOILED IT IS LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE VIEW JOHN COLTER FIRST SAW IN 1808. - 25 - AND YET, TODAY EVEN THE TETONS CANNOT ESCAPE THE THREAT OF POLLUTION. IT COMES NOT FROM STEAM ENGINES AND LOGGING SAWS, BUT FROM THE VERY WEST WIND THAT SHAPED THOSE PEAKS, BEARING THE OFTEN INVISIBLE POISONS THAT GUST IN FROM THE SUN-BAKED SMOG OF OUR CITIES. - 26 - IT'S IRONIC THAT, AS I'VE VISITED WITH PEOPLE IN THESE MOUNTAINS, AGAIN AND AGAIN PEOPLE SAY HOW NICE IT IS TO GET AWAY FROM URBAN AIR POLLUTION. WELL, THE BAD NEWS IS: IT CAN FOLLOW YOU HERE. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS: WE'RE NOT GOING TO PUT UP WITH IT ANY LONGER. NOT HERE. AND NOT AT HOME WHERE YOU LIVE MOST OF YOUR LIVES. - 27 - THE CLEAN AIR INITIATIVES WE LAUNCHED YESTERDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE MARK A NEW CHAPTER IN THE TRADITION OF PROTECTING OUR PEOPLE AND THEIR PARKS. OUR AIM IS TO REDUCE THE BIG THREE IN AIR POLLUTION -- ACID RAIN, URBAN SMOG, AND TOXIC EMISSIONS. To STOP ACID RAIN, WE WILL CUT SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS NEARLY IN HALF -- 10 MILLION TONS -- AND CUT NITROGEN OXIDE BY TWO MILLION TONS -- BEFORE THE CENTURY IS OUT. - 28 - To REDUCE THE EMISSIONS THAT CAUSE SMOG, WE'VE SET AN AMBITIOUS REDUCTION TARGET. OUR PLAN WILL CUT EMISSIONS FROM CARS AND FACTORIES. IT WILL PROMOTE ALTERNATIVE FUELS. AND IT WILL LAUNCH US TOWARDS THE GOAL OF CLEAN AIR IN EVERY AMERICAN CITY. AND THAT GOAL WILL BE REACHED. - 29 - AND ON TOXICS, OUR PLAN IS DESIGNED TO CUT ALL CATEGORIES OF AIRBORNE TOXIC CHEMICALS BY AS MUCH AS THE BEST TECHNOLOGY WE KNOW OF WILL ALLOW -- WHICH SHOULD BE OVER THREE-FOURTHS. AGAIN, BEFORE THE CENTURY IS OUT. WHEREVER THE NEXT GENERATION MAY FIND YOUR CHILDREN, OUR GOAL IS NOTHING LESS THAN AN AMERICA WHERE ALL AIR BREATHES AS CLEAN AS MORNING IN THE ROCKIES. - 30 - JUNE MARKS THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER. A FAMILY TIME. A TIME OF REMEMBRANCE AND TRADITION. AN ESTIMATED 290 MILLION VISITORS WILL COME TO AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS THIS YEAR -- AND YES, I KNOW IT SOMETIMES SEEMS LIKE MOST OF THEM ARE CAMPED OUT AT YOUR CAMPSITE. AND WITH EACH NEW DAY, AMERICAN FAMILIES CLAMBER ACROSS THE CRAGGY TRAILS ABOVE US, AROUND JENNY LAKE AND PAINTBRUSH CANYON, AND THE APTLY-NAMED Rock OF AGES. - 31 - PEOPLE RETURN FROM THESE SPACES REJUVENATED, CONFIDENT, SOMEHOW YOUNGER. AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS ARE ALSO LIVING LABORATORIES, WHERE OUR BOUNDLESS CURIOSITY IS CHALLENGED BY NATURE'S UNBRIDLED FORCES. ROBIN WINKS, A PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THOSE EASTERN, Ivy LEAGUE SCHOOLS -- YALE -- HAS SAID THAT "OUR PARKS ARE UNIVERSITIES." THEY ARE A WHOLE WORLD OF WONDER, WHERE FAMILY AND FRIENDS CAN WATCH NATURE AT WORK. - 32 - OUR STEWARDSHIP OF THE EARTH IS BRIEF. WE OWE IT TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW TO KEEP THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, TO BE RESPONSIBLE PASSENGERS ALONG THE WAY. THEY HAVE A SAYING IN THE HIMALAYAS: "To A FLEA, ALIVE FOR 80 DAYS, A MAN IS IMMORTAL. AND TO A MAN, ALIVE FOR 80 YEARS, A MOUNTAIN IS IMMORTAL. BOTH ARE WRONG." WE STAND IN THE SHADOW OF THE TETONS -- STILL AN UNSPOILED FRONTIER THANKS TO THE VISION OF LEADERS NO LONGER ALIVE. - 33 - BUT IT IS NOT THE LAST FRONTIER. AFTER THE SUN WENT DOWN LAST NIGHT, WE GOT A GLIMPSE OF THE FRONTIER BEYOND, GEORGE P. AND I. IT WAS UP THERE BEYOND THE PEAKS -- PAST THE CLEAR MOUNTAIN AIR THAT WE WANT TO PRESERVE FOR ALL AMERICANS -- UP THERE IN THE STARS. AND AS WE CLOSED OUR EYES TO REST, WE SAW AGAIN THE ONE FRONTIER BEYOND THE STARS -- THE FRONTIER WITHIN OURSELVES. - 34 - IN THE FRONTIERS AHEAD, THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES. WE MUST PIONEER NEW TECHNOLOGY, FIND NEW SOLUTIONS, DREAM NEW DREAMS. LOOK UPON THESE AMERICAN PEAKS -- AND AT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AROUND YOU -- AND REMEMBER. WE HAVE HARDLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE OF WHAT GOD PUT ON EARTH -- AND WHAT GOD PUT IN MAN. # # # (McNally/Simon) June 11, 1989, 5:30 p.m. Draft Eight (TETONS) PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989, 8:45 A.M. Thank you, Secretary Lujan, for that warm introduction. And thank you also for one of the best birthday presents anybody in the state of Wyoming ever got -- an evening with my grandson [fishing] on Jackson Lake. [[Maybe you know the classic line from the Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half SO much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." [[PAUSE]] And it's a good thing. Because we sure didn't catch any fish. ]] And it's always good to see my other fishing buddy, Al Simpson, and my friend Malcolm Wallop. You know, yesterday I announced our proposals to improve the Clean Air Act. But protecting the environment requires good people as well as good laws. And I'm especially pleased to announce today that my nominee for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of Wyoming's own. His Triangle X ranch is just up the road, he is president of the state senate, and he's here with us today -- Senator John Turner. It's well known here that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808 Colter was captured by the locals and -- stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- with sore 2 feet and a sunburned back. [[PAUSE]] Today, George P. and I are awful glad Wyoming's attitude towards visitors is -- what's the phrase? -- kinder, gentler. We meet in the heart of an environmental success story. Part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California, set aside as a preserve, and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. Creating national parks was an American idea -- an idea imitated around the world. And it was one of our best. Five generations of Americans have since enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact natural area in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday afternoon I toured the fire areas north of here -- saw how Yellowstone is coming back -- and marveled at nature's regenerative power. But -- whether restoring a forest, or the air that flows above it -- nature needs our help. And yesterday I stood in the East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breathe -- from coast to coast -- and beyond. For another five generations - and beyond. And today, with my back to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on Congress -- to join me in this new initiative for Clean Air. 3 I've said it before, when talking about issues such as drug abuse, crime and national security: The most fundamental obligation of government is to protect the people -- the people's health, the people's safety, and, ultimately, our family values and traditions. Nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, of campfire tales of brave Sicux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, of range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. Just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the settings in the epic Western, Lonesome Dove. The book begins with the famous passage from T.K. Whipple: "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed -- we live. And what they lived --- we dream." Frontier legends have filled America's movie screens --- and America's imagination -- for most of this century. But the frontier is not the end of the road. It is our inspiration. The frontiers we face in the final decade leading to the year 2000 are different from those our forefathers faced in the mountains and meadows of the American Rockies. What we face are 4 the frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. Let's cross them. Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back.' " Time dubbed spaceship Earth "the Planet of the Year." And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell --- they helped provide the jolt we needed. Some say we are running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left - but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the cold war begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156 foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East- West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves 5 rocked with a five hour benefit concert -- broadcast around the world from New York, London and Brazil -- for environmental challenges and our common future. Many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. Congress has been deadlocked on Clean Air for a long time. When my proposals pass, it will mark the first improvements in the Act in 12 years. Other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. There's been gridlock. I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business, energy, mining and chemical groups, and Members of Congress. I met with people like you here today, who share my passion for the outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major environmental group in America. I've listened to these competing voices -- sometimes strident, sometimes thoughtful, always well-intentioned. Now, no group is going to get everything it wants. Some say we're asking too much, too fast. Others say not enough, too slow. But today, there's some important common ground, Because there's one thing everyone agrees on: We need action. And we need it now. Every American deserves to breathe clean air. And 6 you shouldn't have to drive two thousand miles here to do it. Environmental gridlock must end. Now, this isn't the first time Congress has had to struggle with questions about the kind of America we are going to bequeath to our children. And it's not even the first time the debate was carried right into the Tetons. More than one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. [[PAUSE]] No, Marlin. That would not work on Air Force One. On August 5th, the train stopped about a hundred miles south of here, at the banks of the Green River, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River valley. There the roads ended. And there began a 350 mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone. Winding through Jackson Hole, he was followed by nearly 200 pack animals and 75 calvary troops. [[PAUSE]] All of a sudden a Secret Service motorcade doesn't sound so bad. President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and -- unlike me -- 105 pounds of trout. You know how the story ended. You are looking at it --- a scene SO unspoiled it is little different from the view John Colter first saw in 1808. 7 And yet, today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It can follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog, and toxic emissions. To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions nearly in half --- 10 million tons -- and cut nitrogen oxide by two million tons - before the century is out. To reduce the emissions that cause smog, we've set an ambitious reduction target. Our plan will cut emissions from cars and factories. It will promote alternative fuels. And it will launch us towards the goal of clean air in every American city. And that goal will be reached. And on toxics, our plan is designed to cut all categories of airborne toxic chemicals by as much as the best technology we 8 know of will allow ---- which should be over three-fourths. Again, before the century is out. Wherever the next generation may find your children, our goal is nothing less than an America where all air breathes as clean as morning in the Rockies. June marks the beginning of summer. A ramily time. A time of remembrance and tradition. An estimated 290 million visitors will come to America's national parks this year -- and yes, I know it sometimes seems like most of them are camped out at your campsite. And with each new day, American families clamber across the craggy trails above us, around Jenny Lake and Paintbrush Canyon, and the aptly-named Rock of Ages. People return from these spaces rejuvenated, confident, somehow younger. America's National Parks are also living laboratories, where our boundless curiosity is challenged by nature's unbridled forces. Robin Winks, a professor at one of those eastern, Ivy League schools -- Yale -- has said that "Our parks are universities. They are a whole world of wonder, where family and friends can watch nature at work. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. They have a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong." We stand in the shadow of the Tetons --- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it 9 is not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond, George P. and I. It was up there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans --- up there in the stars. And as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw again the one frontier beyend the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, find new solutions, dream new dreams. Look upon these American peaks -- and at the American people around you -- and remember. We have hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. # # # (McNally/Simon) June 9, 1989, 7:00 p.m. Draft Six (TETONS) PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WYOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989, 8:45 A.M. Thank you, Secretary Lujan, for that warm introduction. And thank you also for one of the best birthday presents anybody in the state of Wyoming ever got -- an evening with my grandson [[fishing] on Jackson Lake. [[Maybe you know the classic line from the Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." [[PAUSE]] And it's a good thing. Because we sure didn't catch any fish. ]] And it's always good to see my other fishing buddy, Al Simpson, and my friend Malcolm Wallop. But I was a little surprised to see them here in the Tetons to look at wildlife You'd think they'd see enough of that in Congress ]] Yesterday, I announced our proposals to improve the Clean Air Act. But protecting the environment requires good people as well as good laws. And I'm especially pleased to announce today that my nominee for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of Wyoming's own. His Triangle X ranch is just up the road, he is president of the state senate, and he's here with us today -- Senator John Turner. It's well known here that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808 Colter was captured by the locals and -- 2 stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- with sore feet and a sunburned back. [[PAUSE]] Today, George P. and I are awful glad Wyoming's attitude towards visitors is -- what's the phrase? -- kinder, gentler. We meet in the heart of an environmental success story. Part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California, set aside as a preserve, and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. Creating national parks was an American idea -- an idea imitated around the world. And it was one of our best. Five generations of Americans have since enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact natural area in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday afternoon I toured the fire areas north of here -- saw how Yellowstone is coming bridg back and marveled at nature's regenerative power. whether restoring a forest or the that flown above it, But nature needs our help. And yesterday I stood in the East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breath from coast to coast -- and beyond. For another five generations -- and beyond. And today, with my back to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on Congress -- to join me in this new initiative for Clean Air. But whether the a re-form forest restoring or a forest or the air 3 I've said it before, when talking about issues such as drug abuse, crime and national security: The most fundamental obligation of government is to protect the people -- the people's health, the people's safety, and, ultimately, our family values and traditions. Nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, of campfire tales of brave Sioux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, of range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. Just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the settings in the epic Western, Lonesome Dove. The book begins with the famous passage from T.K. Whipple: "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed -- we live. And what they lived -- we dream. = Frontier legends have filled America's movie screens -- and America's imagination -- for most of this century. But the frontier is not the end of the road. It is our inspiration. The frontiers we face in the final decade leading to the year 2000 are different from those our forefathers faced in the mountains and meadows of the American Rockies. What we face are 4 the frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. Let's cross them. Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back. " Time dubbed spaceship Earth "the Planet of the Year. If And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell -- they helped provide the jolt we needed. Some say we are running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left -- but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the cold war begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental. challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156 foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East- West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves 5 rocked with a five hour benefit concert -- broadcast around the world from New York, London and Brazil -- for environmental challenges and our common future. Many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. Congress has been deadlocked on Clean Air for a long time. When my proposals pass, it will mark the first improvements in the Act in 12 years. Other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. There's been gridlock. I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business, energy, mining and chemical groups, and Members of Congress. I met with people like you here today, who share my passion for the outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major environmental group in America. I've listened to these competing voices -- sometimes strident, sometimes thoughtful, always well-intentioned. Now, no group is going to get everything it wants. Some say we're asking too much, too fast. Others say not enough, too slow. But today, there's some important common ground. Because there's one thing everyone agrees on: We need action. And we need it now. It is the right -- the right -- of every American 6 to breathe clean air. And you shouldn't have to drive two thousand miles here to do it. Environmental gridlock must end. Now, this isn't the first time Congress has had to struggle with questions about the kind of America we are going to bequeath to our children. And it's not even the first time the debate was carried right into the Tetons. More than one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. [[PAUSE]] No, Marlin. That would not work on Air Force One. On August 5th, the train stopped about a hundred miles south of here, at the banks of the Green River, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River valley. There the roads ended. And there began a 350 mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone. Winding through Jackson Hole, he was followed by nearly 200 pack animals and 75 calvary troops. [[PAUSE]] All of a sudden a Secret Service motorcade doesn't sound so bad. President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and -- unlike me -- 105 pounds of trout. You know how the story ended. You are looking at it -- a scene so unspoiled it is little different from the view John Colter first saw in 1808. 7 And yet, today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It can follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of and Cond art nitrogen otide by 2 mil. pound your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban 1 smog, and toxic emissions. actions a To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions (lim almost half -- by 10 million tons before the century is out.] emissions that cause smog. a To reduce smog, our plan will establish bottom line utilitis standards for businesses -- but refrain from federal "micro- target so reached Buttwe will useat management" of how those standards are met. We are also going to that they well be reached bring most cities back into compliance with Clean Air standards. our St indersued to cut all calegones And on toxins, my plan will reduce industrial emissions of cancer-causing agents. of aubornes toxes themical decade. by 3/4 in the next Wherever the next generation may find your children, our goal is nothing less than an America where all air breathes as clean as morning in the Rockies. winl set in amb target 8 June marks the beginning of summer. A family time. A time of remembrance and tradition. An estimated 290 million visitors will come to America's national parks this year -- and yes, I know it sometimes seems like most of them are camped out at your campsite. And with each new day, American families clamber across the craggy trails above us, around Jenny Lake and Paintbrush Canyon, and the aptly-named Rock of Ages. People return from these spaces rejuvenated, confident, somehow younger. America's National Parks are also living laboratories, where our boundless curiosity is challenged by nature's unbridled forces. Robin Winks, a professor at one of those eastern, Ivy League schools -- Yale -- has said that "Our parks are universities." They are a whole world of wonder, where family and friends can watch nature at work. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. They have a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong." We stand in the shadow of the Tetons -- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it is not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond, George P. and I. It was up there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans -- up there in the stars. And 9 as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw again the one frontier beyond the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, find new solutions, dream new dreams. Look upon these American peaks -- and at the American people around you -- and remember. We have hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. # # # Grady) Pow-write 7 And yet, today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It can follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog, and toxic emissions. To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions nearly in half -- 10 million tons -- and cut nitrogen oxide by two million tons -- before the century is out. To reduce the emissions that cause smog, we've set an cut emissions from cars ambitious reduction target. Our plan will establish a bottom line for milities - but refrain from federal "micro management" and factories it will smote alternat ive fuels; ad it will 1 launch us toward the goal of clean air in every America 4th. of how that target is reached. BUE it will be reached. Ave And on toxins, is our plan is designed to cut all categories of airborne toxic chemicals by three fourths Again, before the century is out, as much as the best technology your know of will allow which sholl be well over three quarters- Theodore Roosevelt Association J O U R N A L © HUBBELL REED McBRIDE This drawing approved by the Boosevelt Family and by the Reasevelt Memorial Association Drawing Copyright. by Mubbell Reed Mc Bride from photographs from life copyright by and with permission of Underwood & Underwood, internation News Reel Corp., Pach Bros. Brown Brothers, Rockwood Studio We Van der Weyde from Bust by James Earl Fraser) The Independent (Prom photos by TW.Ingersoll), Post Intelligencer Also from photographs by permission of the Roosevelt Memorial Association C Le Gendre R Mchandler Fall, 1984 Beatrice Hall Copley Print. reproductions copyright by Curtas and Cameron incorporated Publishers " Boston Vol. X. no. 3 "AND ONE MAN IN HIS TIME PLAYS MANY PARTS 2 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELTS RECORD ON CONSERVATION Compiled and edited from research done by the National Geographic Society, and from other sources, by John A. Gable, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. THE PHILOSOPHY "Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred." Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (1905). "We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life." "Arbor Day-A Message to the School-Children of the United States," April 15, 1907. "In utilizing and conserving the natural resources of the Nation, the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life." Address to the National Editorial Association, Jamestown, Virginia, June 10, 1907. " The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others." Address to the Deep Waterway Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, October 4, 1907. "Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so." Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1907. "Conservation means development as much as it does protection." "New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kan- sas, August 31, 1910. " All the great natural resources which are vital to the welfare of the whole people should be kept either in the hands or under the control of the whole people." The Outlook, April 20, 1912. "There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country," "Confession of Faith" speech, Progres- sive National Convention, Chicago, August 6, 1912. "Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method." A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (1916). "Birds should be saved for utilitarian reasons; and, moreover, they should be saved because of reasons unconnected with dollars and cents. A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. The extermination of the passenger-pigeon meant that mankind was just so much poorer And to lose the chance to see frigate-birds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad of terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach-why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time." A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (1916). Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 3 Conservation - Cont. The Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal is RECLAMATION PROJECTS published quarterly by the Theodore Roosevelt Association, P.O. Box 720, Oyster Bay, New York 11771. CREATED BY OFFICERS OF THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION THEODORE ROOSEVELT MR. WILLIAM DAVISON JOHNSTON President 1901-1909 THE HON. THEODORE R. KUPFERMAN MR. PETER R. FISHER Vice Presidents Name of Reclamation Project Date DR. JOHN ALLEN GABLE 1. Milk River (Montana) March 14, 1903 Executive Director 2. Newlands (Nevada) March 14, 1903 MR. PETER R. FISHER 3. North Platte March 14, 1903 Treasurer (Nebraska and Wyoming) 4. Salt River (Arizona) March 14, 1903 MRS. HAROLD R. KRAFT Assistant Treasurer 5. Uncompahgre (Colorado) March 14, 1903 6. Belle Fourche (South Dakota) May 10, 1904 MRS. WALTER S. COMSTOCK 7. Lower Yellowstone May 10, 1904 Secretary (Montana and North Dakota) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 8. Minidoka (Idaho) April 23, 1904 Mr. John M. Collins 9. Shoshone (Wyoming) February 10, 1904 Mrs. Walter S. Comstock 10. Yuma May 10, 1904 Mr. Robert D. Dalziel (Arizona and California) Mr. Peter R. Fisher 11. Boise (Idaho and Oregon) March 27, 1905 The Hon. Leslie G. Foschio April 18, 1905 Professor William H. Harbaugh 12. Huntley (Montana) The Hon. Howard T. Hogan, Sr. 13. Klamath May 15, 1905 Mr. William Davison Johnston (California and Oregon) Mrs. Harold R. Kraft 14. Rio Grande (New Mexico) December 2, 1905 The Hon. Theodore R. Kupferman 15. Carlsbad (New Mexico) December 2, 1905 Miss Elizabeth E. Roosevelt Mr. John Ellis Roosevelt 16. Okanogan (Washington) December 2, 1905 Mr. P. James Roosevelt 17. Strawberry Valley (Utah) December 15, 1905 Mr. Steven R. Saunders 18. Sun River (Montana) February 26, 1906 Mr. Edward Schafer 19. Umatilla (Oregon) December 4, 1905 20. Yakima (Washington) December 12, 1905 FINANCE COMMITTEE 21. Orland (California) October 5, 1907 Mr. Oliver R. Grace Mr. P. James Roosevelt, Chairman Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, IV Source: Bureau of Reclamation, Reclamation Project TR BIRTHPLACE COMMITTEE Data (Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior, The Hon. Theodore R. Kupferman, Chairman 1948). Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Mr. Robert D. Dalziel Mr. Philip Hecht These 21 federal projects were the first federal irrigation Mr. David M. Kahn projects, and were located in 14 states. The list above Dr. James Lampasso does not include three additional projects on the Black- Mrs. Thomas Matthews feet, Flathead, and Fork Peck Indian reservations. All of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, IV Mr. Oren Root these federal irrigation projects came about as the result Mr. Edward Schafer of the Newlands Reclamation Act, which became law on Mrs. Whitney North Seymour, Jr. June 17, 1902. The Theodore Roosevelt Association is a national non- profit historical society and public service organization, The Roosevelt Dam, 260 feet high, was part of the Salt chartered by Congress in 1920. A copy of the last financial River project in Arizona, and was dedicated by TR on report of the Association, filed with the Department of March 18, 1911. The dam, located near Phoenix, has State of the State of New York, may be obtained upon re- now been officially designated as "Theodore Roosevelt quest by writing either New York State Department of Dam." Adjacent to the dam are Theodore Roosevelt State, Office of Charities Registration, Albany, New York 12231, or the TR Association, P.O. Box 720, Oyster Bay, Lake and the town of Roosevelt, Arizona. New York 11771. 4 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal Conservation - Cont. TR at the dedication of Roosevelt Dam in Arizona on March 18, 1911. NATIONAL FORESTS CREATED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 Name of National Forest Date Name of National Forest Date 1. Luquillo (Puerto Rico) January 17, 1903 9. Wenaha March 1, 1907 2. White River (Colorado) May 21, 1904 (Oregon and Washington) 3. Sevier (Utah) January 17, 1906 10. Olympic (Washington) March 2, 1907 4. Wichita (Oklahoma) May 29, 1906 11. Manti (Utah) April 25, 1907 5. Lolo (Montana) November 6, 1906 12. Manzano (New Mexico) April 16, 1908 6. Caribou January 15, 1907 13. Kansas (Kansas) May 15, 1908 (Idaho and Wyoming) 14. Minnesota (Minnesota) May 23, 1908 7. Colville (Washington) March 1, 1907 15. Pocatello (Idaho and Utah) July 1, 1908 8. Las Animas March 1, 1907 16. Cache (Idaho and Utah) July 1, 1908 (Colorado and New Mexico) 17. Whitman (Oregon) July 1, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 5 Conservation - Cont. Name of National Forest Date Name of National Forest Date 18. Malheur (Oregon) July 1, 1908 74. Bitterroot July 1, 1908 19. Umatilla (Oregon) July 1, 1908 (Idaho and Montana) 20. Columbia (Washington) July 1, 1908 75. Ashley (Utah and Wyoming) July 1, 1908 21. Rainier (Washington) July 1, 1908 76. Uncompahgre (Colorado) July 1, 1908 22. Washington (Washington) July 1, 1908 77. San Juan (Colorado) July 1, 1908 23. Chelan (Washington) July 1, 1908 78. Rio Grande (Colorado) July 1, 1908 24. Snoqualmie (Washington) July 1, 1908 79. Pike (Colorado) July 1, 1908 25. Wenatchee (Washington) July 1, 1908 80. Montezuma (Colorado) July 1, 1908 26. Fillmore (Utah) July 1, 1908 81. Leadville (Colorado) July 1, 1908 27. Nebo (Utah) July 1, 1908 82. Gunnison (Colorado) July 1, 1908 28. Lewis and Clark (Montana) July 1, 1908 83. Cochetopa (Colorado) July 1, 1908 29. Blackfeet (Montana) July 1, 1908 84. Arapaho (Colorado) July 1, 1908 30. Flathead (Montana) July 1, 1908 85. Battlement (Colorado) July 1, 1908 31. Kootenai (Montana) July 1, 1908 86. Shoshone (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 32. Routt (Colorado) July 1, 1908 87. Uinta (Utah) July 1, 1908 33. Cabinet (Montana) July 1, 1908 88. Crook (Arizona) July 1, 1908 34. Hayden July 1, 1908 89. Coconino (Arizona) July 1, 1908 (Colorado and Wyoming) 90. Inyo (California) July 1, 1908 35. Challis (Idaho) July 1, 1908 91. Stanislaus (California) July 1, 1908 36. Salmon (Idaho) July 1, 1908 92. Sierra (California) July 1, 1908 37. Clearwater (Idaho) July 1, 1908 93. Chiricahua July 1, 1908 38. Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) July 1, 1908 (Arizona and New Mexico) 39. Pend d'Orielle (Idaho) July 1, 1908 94. Coronado (Arizona) July 1, 1908 40. Kaniksu July 1, 1908 95. Garces (Arizona) July 1, 1908 (Idaho and Washington) 96. Monterey (California) July 1, 1908 41. Angeles (California) July 1, 1908 97. San Isabel (Colorado) July 1, 1908 42. San Luis (California) July 1, 1908 98. Minidoka (Idaho and Utah) July 1, 1908 43. Jemez (New Mexico) July 1, 1908 99. Jefferson (Montana) July 1, 1908 44. Sundance (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 100. Custer (Montana) July 1, 1908 45. Santa Barbara (California) July 1, 1908 101. Nebraska (Nebraska) July 1, 1908 46. Weiser (Idaho) July 1, 1908 102. Wallowa (Oregon) July 1, 1908 47. Nezperce (Idaho) July 1, 1908 103. Fishlake (Utah) July 1, 1908 48. Idaho (Idaho) July 1, 1908 104. La Salle (Utah) July 1, 1908 49. Payette (Idaho) July 1, 1908 105. Wasatch (Utah) July 1, 1908 50. Boise (Idaho) July 1, 1908 106. Powell (Utah) July 1, 1908 51. Sawtooth (Idaho) July 1, 1908 107. Bighorn (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 52. Lemhi (Idaho) July 1, 1908 108. Kaibab (Arizona) July 1, 1908 53. Siuslaw (Oregon) July 1, 1908 109. Deschutes (Oregon) July 14, 1908 54. Cheyenne (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 110. Fremont (Oregon) July 14, 1908 55. Medicine Bow (Colorado) July 1, 1908 111. Ocala (Florida) Nov. 24, 1908 56. Cascade (Oregon) July 1, 1908 112. Dakota (North Dakota) Nov. 24, 1908 57. Oregon (Oregon) July 1, 1908 113. Choctawhatchee (Florida) Nov. 27, 1908 58. Umpqua (Oregon) July 1, 1908 114. Humboldt (Nevada) January 20, 1909 59. Siskiyou (Oregon) July 1, 1908 115. Moapa (Nevada) January 21, 1909 60. Crater July 1, 1908 116. Cleveland (California) January 26, 1909 117. Pecos (New Mexico) January 28, 1909 (California and Oregon) July 1, 1908 118. Prescott (Arizona) February 1, 1909 61. Beartooth (Montana) 119. Calaveras Bigtree (California) February 8, 1909 62. Holy Cross (Colorado) July 1, 1908 120. Tonto (Arizona) February 10, 1909 63. Targhee July 1, 1908 121. Marquette (Michigan) February 10, 1909 (Idaho and Wyoming) 122. Nevada (Nevada) February 10, 1909 64. Teton (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 123. Dixie (Arizona and Utah) February 10, 1909 65. Wyoming (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 124. Michigan (Michigan) February 11, 1909 66. Bonneville (Wyoming) July 1, 1908 125. Klamath February 13, 1909 67. Absaroka (Montana) July 1, 1908 (California and Oregon) 68. Beaverhead (Montana) July 1, 1908 126. Superior (Minnesota) February 13, 1909 69. Madison (Montana) July 1, 1908 127. Gila (New Mexico) February 15, 1909 70. Gallatin (Montana) July 1, 1908 128. Black Hills February 15, 1909 71. Deerlodge (Montana) July 1, 1908 (S. Dakota and Wyoming) 72. Helena (Montana) July 1, 1908 129. Sioux February 15, 1909 73. Missoula (Montana) July 1, 1908 (Montana and South Dakota) 6 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal Conservation - Cont. Name of National Forest Date Department of the Interior. Gifford Pinchot was ap- 130. Tongass (Alaska) February 16, 1909 pointed as the first chief of the new agency, the United 131. Toiyabe (Nevada) February 20, 1909 States Forest Service. 132. Datil (New Mexico) February 23, 1909 133. Chugach (Alaska) February 23, 1909 TR's policy of forest reserves was opposed by commer- 134. Modoc (California) February 25, 1909 cial and other interests favoring unrestricted exploitation 135. Ozark (Arkansas) February 25, 1909 of natural resources. TR recorded in his Autobiography 136. California (California) February 25, 1909 (1913): "While the Agricultural Appropriation Bill was 137. Arkansas (Arkansas) February 27, 1909 passing through the Senate, in 1907, Senator Fulton, of 138. Mono March 2, 1909 Oregon, secured an amendment providing that the Presi- (California and Nevada) dent could not set aside any additional National Forests 139. Sitgreaves (Arizona) March 2, 1909 in the six Northwestern States. This meant retaining 140. Lincoln (New Mexico) March 2, 1909 some sixteen million of acres to be exploited by land 141. Shasta (California) March 2, 1909 grabbers and by the representatives of the great special 142. Alamo (New Mexico) March 2, 1909 interests, at the expense of the public interest. But for 143. Carson (New Mexico) March 2, 1909 four years the Forest Service had been gathering field 144. Zuni March 2, 1909 notes as to what forests ought to be set aside in these (Arizona and New Mexico) States, and so was prepared to act. It was equally 145. Trinity (California) March 2, 1909 undesirable to veto the whole agricultural bill, and to 146. Apache (Arizona) March 2, 1909 sign it with this amendment effective. Accordingly, a 147. Lassen (California) March 2, 1909 plan to create the necessary National Forest in these 148. Plumas (California) March 2, 1909 States before the Agricultural Bill could be passed and 149. Tahoe (California) March 2, 1909 signed was laid before me by Mr. Pinchot. I approved it. 150. Sequoia (California) March 2, 1909 The necessary papers were immediately prepared. I sign- ed the last proclamation a couple of days before by my signature, the bill became law; and when the friends of Date shows last area change made, or when the National the special interests in the Senate got their amendment Forest was established. Source: Establishment and through and woke up, they discovered that sixteen Modification of National Forest Boundaries: A million acres of timberland had been saved for the peo- Chronological Record, 1891-1973. ple by putting them in the National Forests before the land grabbers could get at them. The opponents of the The forest reserves of the United States went from ap- Forest Service turned handsprings in their wrath; and proximately 43,000,000 acres to about 194,000,000 acres dire were their threats against the Executive; but the under TR. This represents an increase of over 300%. The threats could not be carried out, and were really only a area of forest reserves established by TR is equal in tribute to the efficiency of our action." acreage to all the states on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Virginia plus the states of Vermont, Pennsylvania, The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve in Wyoming had some and West Virginia. This is a greater area than France, Colorado lands added to it by TR in 1905. This Colora- Belgium, and The Netherlands combined. On February do land was named the "Roosevelt National Forest" in 1, 1905, President Roosevelt transferred the Division of 1932 as a tribute to TR. Forestry to the Department of Agriculture from the FEDERAL BIRD RESERVATIONS CREATED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 Name of Bird Reservation Date Name of Bird Reservation Date 1. Pelican Island (Florida) March 14, 1903 12. Copalis Rock (Washington) October 23, 1907 Enlarged January 26, 1909 13. Quillayute Needles October 23, 1907 2. Breton Island (Louisiana) October 4, 1904 (Washington) 3. Stump Lake (North Dakota) March 9, 1905 14. East Timbalier Island December 7, 1907 4. Siskiwit Islands (Michigan) October 10, 1905 (Louisiana) 5. Huron Islands (Michigan) October 10, 1905 15. Mosquito Inlet (Florida) February 24, 1908 6. Passage Key (Florida) October 10, 1905 16. Tortugas Keys (Florida) April 6, 1908 7. Indian Key (Florida) February 10, 1906 17. Key West (Florida) August 8, 1908 8. Tern Islands (Louisiana) August 8, 1907 18. Klamath Lake August 8, 1908 9. Shell Keys (Louisiana) August 17, 1907 (Oregon and California) 10. Three Arch Rocks (Oregon) October 14, 1907 19. Lake Malheur (Oregon) August 18, 1908 11. Flattery Rocks (Washington) October 23, 1907 20. Chase Lake (North Dakota) August 28, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 7 Conservation - Cont. Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard TR, M.L. Alexander, and Warden William Sprinkle, on June 8, 1915, examine a Royal Tern egg on Bird Island, Louisiana, which was set aside by TR as a Federal Bird Reservation. The island and the area are part of what is now Breton National Wildlife Refuge. Name of Bird Reservation Date Name of Bird Reservation Date 21. Pine Island (Florida) Sept. 15, 1908 43. Minidoka (Idaho) February 25, 1909 22. Matlacha Pass (Florida) Sept. 26, 1908 44. Tuxedni (Alaska) February 27, 1909 23. Palma Sole (Florida) Sept. 26, 1908 45. Saint Lazaria (Alaska) February 27, 1909 24. Island Bay (Florida) October 23, 1908 46. Yukon Delta (Alaska) February 27, 1909 25. Loch-Katrine (Wyoming) October 26, 1908 47. Culebra (Puerto Rico) February 27, 1909 26. Hawaiian Islands February 3, 1909 48. Farallon (California) February 27, 1909 27. Salt River (Arizona) February 25, 1909 49. Behring (Bering) Sea (Alaska) February 27, 1909 28. East Park (California) February 25, 1909 50. Pribilof (Alaska) February 27, 1909 29. Deer Flat (Idaho) February 25, 1909 51. Bogoslof (Alaska) March 2, 1909 30. Willow Creek (Montana) February 25, 1909 31. Carlsbad (New Mexico) February 25, 1909 Source: Theodore Roosevelt, A Book-Lover's Holidays 32. Rio Grande (New Mexico) February 25, 1909 in the Open (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916). 33. Cold Springs (Oregon) February 25, 1909 34. Belle Fourche (South Dakota) February 25, 1909 These were the first federal bird preserves. Dr. Paul 35. Strawberry Valley (Utah) February 25, 1909 Russell Cutright, in his book Theodore Roosevelt the 36. Keechelus (Washington) February 25, 1909 Naturalist (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), tells 37. Kachess (Washington) February 25, 1909 the story of the origin of the federal bird preserves: "As 38. Clealum (Washington) February 25, 1909 Governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt had in- 39. Bumping Lake (Washington) February 25, 1909 sisted that the state forbid factories to make bird skins 40. Conconully (Washington) February 25, 1909 into articles of apparel. Birds in the trees and on the 41. Pathfinder (Wyoming) February 25, 1909 beaches were much more beautiful than on women's 42. Shoshone (Wyoming) February 25, 1909 hats, he had insisted. After he became President, he was 8 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal Conservation - Cont. in a position to do even more about it. He took his first nocuous animals were able to mate and raise their young important step on March 14, 1903. For some time orni- without fear of human molestation. Having made this thologists had been making a determined effort to get start toward protecting our wildlife, Roosevelt created protection for the birds on Pelican Island, a pinpoint of fifty more reservations, making fifty-one in all. They land in Florida's Indian River, where plume hunters had were scattered from the Gulf of Mexico to California been making such inroads on the egrets and other birds and Oregon, even to Puerto Rico, Alaska, and Hawaii. of lively plumage that it was feared they would soon be He gave protection to the colonies of laughing gulls, exterminated. When all other efforts failed, they ap- black skimmers, and brown pelicans on the Breton pealed directly to Roosevelt. In considering this appeal Island Reservation, Louisiana; he provided safe nesting Roosevelt asked: 'Is there any law that will prevent me grounds for migratory waterfowl on Klamath Lake and from declaring Pelican Island a Federal Bird Reserva- Malheur Lake Reservations in Oregon; he gave sanc- tion?' When told that there was none, the island being tuary to the sooty and noddy terns on the Dry Tortugas federal property, he replied, 'Very well, then I so declare Reservation in the Gulf of Mexico; and he supplied pro- it.' In this manner, quickly, without fanfare, Roosevelt tected homes for the petrels, cormorants, puffins, and established the first Federal Wildlife Refuge. Pelican murres on the Three Arch Rocks Reservation off the Island was only a speck of land, less than four acres in coast of Oregon." extent, but from that time on its birds and other in- NATIONAL GAME PRESERVES CREATED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 1. Wichita Forest, Oklahoma-June 2, 1905. These were the first federal game preserves. Counting Land added May 29, 1906. This is the first federal the federal bird reservations, TR set aside a total of 55 game preserve. areas for the preservation of wildlife. The Wichita Forest 2. Grand Canyon, Arizona-June 23, 1908. and Montana's National Bison Range helped bring the Note that Grand Canyon also made a National Monu- buffalo back to the West. Protection of wildlife was also ment in 1908. a goal in the National Parks and National Monuments 3. Fire Island, Alaska-February 27, 1909. established by Roosevelt. Sullys Hill National Park, 4. National Bison Range, Montana-March 4, 1909. North Dakota, established by TR in 1904, became a Na- tional Game Preserve in 1914. NATIONAL PARKS CREATED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 1. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (1902). year he established a National Game Preserve at the 2. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota (1903). Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon finally became a Na- 3. Sullys Hill, North Dakota (1904): became National tional Park in 1919. Game Preserve in 1914. 4. Platt National Park, Oklahoma (1906): now part of The Crater Lake in Oregon is a six-mile wide lake located Chickasaw National Recreation Area. in the crater of an extinct volcano. Wind Cave in South 5. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (1906). Dakota is famous for its underground passages and lime- stone caverns. Sullys Hill, which later became a National When TR became President, the United States had 5 Na- Game Preserve, is a wooded area by Devil's Lake in tional Parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, General North Dakota. Platt in Oklahoma, now part of Chicka- Grant, and Mount Rainier. Roosevelt doubled the saw National Recreation Area, is the site of mineral number of National Parks to 10. He also added land to springs, and at one time was the smallest National Park. Yosemite. In 1902, at TR's urging, Congress appropri- Colorado's Mesa Verde is the site of noted Indian cave ated $15,000 for the purchase, feeding, and fencing of dwellings. buffalo in Yellowstone. Roosevelt fought unsuccessfully as President to make the Grand Canyon a National Theodore Roosevelt National Park, near Medora, North Park. He did, however, protect the Grand Canyon by Dakota, was established in 1947 as a memorial to the declaring it a National Monument in 1908, and that same great "Conservationist President." Located in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 9 Conservation - Cont. Badlands of western North Dakota, where TR was a cat- In dedicating the gateway to Yellowstone in 1903, Presi- tle rancher in the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt National dent Roosevelt said that the "essential feature" of the Park consists of three units with a total of about 110 National Parks was their "essential democracy" in that square miles. the parks preserved wilderness and scenery "for the peo- ple as a whole." NATIONAL MONUMENTS CREATED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT 1901-1909 1. Devils Tower, Wyoming, September 24, 1906. 1906. The law authorized the President at his discretion 2. El Morro, New Mexico, December 8, 1906. to "declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, 3. Montezuma Castle, Arizona, December 8, 1906. historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of 4. Petrified Forest, Arizona, December 8, 1906.* historic and scientific interest that are situated upon 5. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, March 11, 1907. lands owned or controlled by the Government of the 6. Lassen Peak, California, May 6, 1907.* United States to be National Monuments." TR estab- 7. Cinder Cone, California, May 6, 1907. lished the first 18 National Monuments. No President 8. Gila Cliff Dwellings, New Mexico, November 16, since has matched this record. 1907. 9. Tonto, Arizona, December 19, 1907. Chalmette Monument and Grounds, the site of much of 10. Muir Woods, California, January 9, 1908. the Battle of New Orleans, and of a later cemetery for 11. Grand Canyon, Arizona, January 11, 1908* veterans, was also established under the Roosevelt ad- 12. Pinnacles, California, January 16, 1908. ministration, on March 4, 1907. Chalmette National 13. Jewel Cave, South Dakota, February 7, 1908. Historic Park, as it is now known, is located in St. Ber- 14. Natural Bridges, Utah, April 16, 1908. nard Parish, Louisiana, near the city of New Orleans. 15. Lewis & Clark, Montana, May 11, 1908 (later given to the State of Montana). The list of TR's National Monuments includes some of 16. Tumacacori, Arizona, September 15, 1908. the greatest natural wonders and prehistoric remains in 17. Wheeler, Colorado, December 7, 1908 (given to the the United States. Roosevelt's philosophy on the preser- Forest Service in 1950). vation of natural wonders was summed up in remarks he 18. Mount Olympus, Washington, March 2, 1909.' made at the Grand Canyon in 1903: "In the Grand Can- yon, Arizona has a natural wonder which, so far as I * Now part of National Parks. know, is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the Abolished as a National Monument. rest of the world. Keep this great wonder of nature as it is. You can not improve it. The ages have been at Theodore Roosevelt signed the "Act for the Preserva- work on it, and man can only mar it." tion of American Antiquities," also known as the Anti- quities Act or the National Monuments Act, on June 8, CONSERVATION COMMISSIONS AND CONFERENCES UNDER THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION 1901-1909 1.) The Public Lands Commission was appointed by TR the United States, the development of water power, on October 22, 1903 to study public land policy and flood control, and land reclamation. laws. The findings of the commission helped lead to new government regulations of the use of open range and 3.) The Conference of Governors, called by Roosevelt to federal lands. consider the problems of conservation, met at the White House May 13-15, 1908, attended by the governors of 2.) The Inland Waterways Commission was appointed the states and territories, the members of the Supreme by TR on March 14, 1907 to study the river systems of Court and the Cabinet, scientists, and various national 10 Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal Conservation - Cont. leaders. The governors adopted a declaration supporting the College of Agriculture at Cornell, as chairman, to conservation, and the conference led to the appointment study the status of rural life. When Congress refused to of 38 state conservation commissions. This 1908 meeting appropriate funds to print the commission's historic was the beginning of the annual governors' conferences. report, the Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, Wash- ington, published the report. 4.) The National Conservation Commission, appointed by TR on June 8, 1908 as a result of the Conference of 6.) The Joint Conservation Congress met in December, Governors, prepared the first inventory of the natural 1908, to receive the three-volume report of the National resources of the United States. The commission was Conservation Commission. The congress was attended divided into four sections, water, forests, lands, and by 20 governors, representatives of 22 state conservation minerals, each section having a chairman, and with Gif- commissions, and leaders from various national organi- ford Pinchot as chairman of the executive committee. zations. 5.) The Country Life Commission was appointed by TR 7.) The North American Conservation Conference con- in August, 1908, with Liberty Hyde Bailey, director of vened at Roosevelt's invitation in the White House on Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 11 Conservation - Cont. February 18, 1909, and after a session of five days adopted a declaration of principles. The congress called for an international conservation conference, an idea Roosevelt's other work for conservation as President in- which TR endorsed; but no such meeting was held. TR cluded the withdrawal of coal, mineral, oil, phosphate, decided to call this continental conference after the suc- and water-power site lands from private exploitation. cesses of the Conference of Governors and the Joint Conservation Congress. In his call for the conference, TR said: "It is evident that natural resources are not Note: The status, borders, names, and other details limited by the boundary lines which separate nations, about the projects and areas mentioned in these lists and that the need for conserving them upon this conti- have changed over the years. For instance, some Na- nent is as wide as the area upon which they exist." tional Monuments are now parts of National Parks, while the borders and names of National Forests have Roosevelt made much innovative use of study commis- been changed in some cases. sions. He appointed a total of six, including the four on conservation. These were volunteer commissions, "car- ried on without a cent of pay to the men themselves, and According to the National Geographic, the area of the wholly without cost to the Government," as TR stressed. United States placed under public protection by Theo- In reaction to the flood of legislative and policy recom- dore Roosevelt, as National Parks, National Forests, mendations resulting from the commissions, Congress in game and bird preserves, and other federal reservations, 1909 forbade the President to appoint any further com- comes to a total of approximately 230,000,000 acres. missions without Congressional authorization. A Word About the Theodore Roosevelt Association The Theodore Roosevelt Association is a national historical society and public service organization chartered by Congress on May 31, 1920 "to perpetuate the memory of Theodore Roosevelt for the benefit of the people of the United States of America and the world." For the benefit of the people of the United States and the world, the TR Association has established several major memorials, museums, and historical collections. The house where TR was born in Manhattan was reconstructed by the Association in 1923. Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., was given by the Association to the federal government in 1932. Sagamore Hill, TR's Oyster Bay, Long Island home, was opened to the public by the TRA in 1953. On July 27, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed an act establishing TR Birthplace in New York City and Sagamore Hill as National Historic Sites, and the TRA then donated both houses to the National Park Service together with an endowment of $500,000. for the support of both museums. For a period of over twenty years, the Association work- ed to assemble the definitive collection on TR. The resulting Theodore Roosevelt Collection was donated to Harvard in 1943. The Association also donated an extensive film archive on TR and his times to the Library of Congress. Today the TRA publishes books and a quarterly magazine; pro- vides support for TR sites around the nation; and serves as a research resource for writers, historians, the media, and the public. The TRA sponsors student contests and awards, and sends speakers to schools and organizations. The TRA is administered by the Executive Committee, which meets regularly throughout the year. Mr. William Davison Johnston was elected President of the TRA in 1980, and Dr. John Allen Gable became the Association's Executive Director in 1974. The TRA has members in all fifty states, and membership is open to all. Billsitmand TUS No yellowstone comy Ngc -hell Deputy IMMENTS back (McNally/Simon) Exec,Sec. - feelsthis June 9, 1989, 2:00 p.m. Draft Five (TETONS) PP is inappropriate YOMING ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS RAND TETONS NATIONAL PARK because of the RNC ESDAY, JUNE 13, 1989, 8:45 A.M. Fiasco - Kristen ps. Idon't for that warm introduction. And t TOT one of the best birthday presents anybody in the state of Wyoming ever got -- an evening with my grandson, fishing on Jackson Lake. Maybe you know the classic line from the Wind in the Willows: "There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." [[PAUSE]] And it's a good thing. Because we sure didn't catch any fish. And it's always good to see my other fishing buddy, Al Simpson, and my friend Malcolm Wallop. But I was a little surprised to see them here in the Tetons to look at wildlife. You'd think they'd see enough of that in Congress. Yesterday, I announced our proposals to improve the Clean Air Act. But protecting the environment requires good people as well as good laws. And I'm especially pleased to announce today that my nominee for Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is one of Wyoming's own. His Triangle X ranch is just up the road, he is president of the state senate, and he's here with us today -- Senator John Turner. It's well known here that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808 Colter was captured by the locals and -- 2 stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- with sore feet and a sunburned back. [[PAUSE]] Today, George P. and I are awful glad Wyoming's attitude towards visitors is -- what's the phrase? -- kinder, gentler. We meet in the heart of an environmental success story. Part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California, set aside as a preserve, and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. Creating national parks was an American idea -- an idea imitated around the world. And it was one of our best. Five generations of Americans have since enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact natural area in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday I stood in the East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breath --- from coast to coast -- and beyond. For another five generations -- and beyond. And today, with my back to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on Congress -- to join me in this new initiative for Clean Air. I've said it before, when talking about issues such as drug abuse, crime and national security: The most fundamental obligation of government is to protect the people -- the people's 3 health, the people's safety, and, ultimately, our family values and traditions. Nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, of campfire tales of brave Sioux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, of range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. Just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the settings in the epic Western, Lonesome Dove. The book begins with the famous passage from T.K. Whipple: "All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed -- we live. And what they lived -- we dream. " Frontier legends have filled America's movie screens -- and America's imagination -- for most of this century. But the frontier is not the end of the road. It is our inspiration. The frontiers we face in the final decade leading to the year 2000 are different from those our forefathers faced in the mountains and meadows of the American Rockies. What we face are the frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. Let's cross them. 4 Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back. " Time dubbed spaceship Earth "the Planet of the Year. " And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell -- they helped provide the jolt we needed. Some say we are running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left -- but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the cold war begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. Yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156 foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East- West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves rocked with a five hour benefit concert -- broadcast around the 5 world from New York, London and Brazil -- for environmental challenges and our common future. Many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. Congress has been deadlocked on Clean Air for a long time. When my proposals pass, it will mark the first improvements in the Act in 12 years. Other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. There's been gridlock. I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business, energy, mining and chemical groups, and Members of Congress. I met with people like you here today, who share my passion for the outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major environmental group in America. I've listened to these competing voices -- sometimes strident, sometimes thoughtful, always well-intentioned. no group is Now, none of the special interest groups are going to get it wants. everything they wanted. Some say we're asking too much, too fast. Others say not enough, too slow. But today, there's some important common ground. Because there's one thing everyone agrees on: We need action. And we need it now. It is the right -- the right -- of every American to breathe clean air. And you 6 damned well shouldn't have to drive two thousand miles to do it. Environmental gridlock must end. Now, this isn't the first time Congress has had to struggle with questions about the kind of America we are going to bequeath to our children. And it's not even the first time the debate was carried right into the Tetons. More than one hundred years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. [[PAUSE] No, Marlin. That would not work on Air Force One. On August 5th, the train stopped about a hundred miles south of here, at the banks of the Green River, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River valley. There the roads ended. And there began a 350 mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone. Winding through Jackson Hole, he was followed by nearly 200 pack animals and 75 calvary troops. [[PAUSE] All of a sudden a Secret Service motorcade doesn't sound so bad. President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and -- unlike me -- 105 pounds of trout. You know how the story ended. You are looking at it -- a scene so unspoiled it is little different from the view John Colter first saw in 1808. 7 And yet, today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. It's ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is: It can follow you here. But the good news is: We're not going to put up with it any longer. Not here. And not at home where you live most of your lives. The clean air initiatives we launched yesterday at the White House mark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their parks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog, and toxic emissions. expopetic To stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide emissions [in half -- by 10 million tons -- before the century is out.] To reduce smog, our plan will establish bottom line standards for businesses -- but refrain from federal "micro- management" of how those standards are met. We are also going to bring most cities back into compliance with Clean Air standards. And on toxins, my plan will reduce industrial emissions of cancer-causing agents. Wherever the next generation may find your children, our goal is nothing less than an America where all air breathes as clean as morning in the Rockies. 8 June marks the beginning of summer. A family time. A time of remembrance and tradition. An estimated 290 million visitors will come to America's national parks this year -- and yes, I know it sometimes seems like most of them are camped out at your campsite. And with each new day, American families clamber across the craggy trails above us, around Jenny Lake and delate Paintbrush Canyon, and the aptly-named Rock of Ages. Σ Hands young and old press against the hard basement rock -- exposed by the elements and nearly as ancient as the Earth itself -- touching the past, testing their future. People return from these spaces rejuvenated, confident, somehow younger. America's National Parks are also living laboratories, where our boundless curiosity is challenged by nature's unbridled forces. Robin Winks, a professor at one of those eastern, Ivy League schools -- Yale -- has said that "Our parks are universities. " They are a whole world of wonder, where family and friends can watch nature at work. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. They have a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong." We stand in the shadow of the Tetons -- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it is not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond, George P. and I. It was up 9 there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans -- up there in the stars. And as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw again the one frontier beyond the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, find new solutions, dream new dreams. Look upon these American peaks -- and at the American people around you -- and remember. We have hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. # # # THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Kelly, Wyoming) For Immediate Release June 13, 1989 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE TETON SCIENCE SCHOOL Grand Teton National Park Kelly, Wyoming 9:10 A.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much, and thank you, Secretary Lujan. Please be seated. (Laughter.) Sorry. Manuel mentioned my birthday. It's so nice to be in Wyoming -- nobody, not one person -- your Governor, the Senators, our new Congressman -- no one has said, "And now you can ride the subway in Jackson Hole for half fair." (Laughter.) I'm delighted and thank you for your tolerance. But, Manual, thank you for that warm introduction. Secretary Lujan and I served in Congress, and I liked very much what Lorraine said about him and I know he'll do a first-rate job with all the responsibilities that the Secretary of the Interior has. I want to thank all of you for one of the best birthday presents a person could possibly have -- and that was going fishing yesterday on Lake Jackson with my grandson. The score -- caught six, ate two. Not bad for 45 minutes worth of work out there. And I am really thrilled to be here. I'm just sorry that the Silver Fox is not here. That's my wife, Barbara. But some have enquired about her health, and she's doing very well, thank you, and she's off doing the good works for literacy in New York City, I think it is, this evening. And so -- I wish she were here. She was with me last time and she'll never forget your hospitality either. I want to thank Governor Sullivan, who showed us the extraordinary courtesy of coming over across the line into Montana to greet us yesterday and -- (laughter) -- was with us here and then had his beautiful daughter come out and we could see a little more of that wonderful Sullivan family. I'm glad that Senator Malcolm Wallop, a friend of longstanding, is with us; our new Congressman who's going to do a great job for this state, Craig Thomas is here. And then I had to put up with Al Simpson. (Laughter.) You see, every January or so, he and I go fishing, but not in Wyoming. And we have to listen for two straight nights to him lying about Wyoming fishing to those of us fishing in Florida. (Laughter.) But nevertheless, I'm glad he's - 2 - Senate; he's here with us today -- your own, my friend, Senator John Turner, who's going to take on this very important responsibility. (Applause.) And, Jack, I want to thank you, and Lorraine, and all the other Troopers out there and the Park Service people who do such a superb job for the entire country. I want to just visit with you today on some concepts of the environment. It's well-known that Wyoming's first tourist was a trapper named John Colter, a veteran of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1808, Colter was captured by the locals, stripped naked and hotly pursued -- given a chance to run for his life. Seven days later he arrived at a Spanish fort -- sore feet and a sunburned back. And today, George P. and I, my grandson and I, are awful glad that Wyoming's attitude towards visitors -- (laughter) -- is --- what's the phrase -- kinder and gentler. (Laughter.) We meet in the heart of an environmental success story, part of a tradition that began when Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California, set aside as a preserve and continued through Teddy Roosevelt and others who found inspiration in these majestic American peaks. And creating national parks was an American idea --- an idea imitated all around the world. And it was one of our very best ideas. Five generations of Americans have since enjoyed Yellowstone and the Tetons -- the largest intact natural area in the temperate zones of the Earth. And yesterday afternoon I toured the fire areas north of here -- saw how Yellowstone is coming back -- and marveled at nature's regenerative power. But whether restoring a forest or the air that flows above it, nature needs our help. And yesterday I stood in the majestic East Room at the White House to announce a proposal designed to ensure that we do our part to improve and preserve our natural heritage -- the very air we breathe -- from coast to coast and beyond. For another five generations -- and beyond. And today, with our backs to the Pacific and the jewels of the American Rockies, I look east across this fertile and productive land and call on the American people -- and on the Congress -- to join me in this new initiative for clean air. I've said it before, when talking about issues like drug abuse, crime and national security, the most fundamental obligation of the government is to protect the people -- the people's health, the people's safety and, ultimately, our values and our traditions. And nowhere are these traditions more real -- more alive -- than here in the western reaches of Wyoming. It is a land of legend, campfire tales of brave Sioux warriors, of Butch Cassidy and the Union Pacific Railroad, or range wars between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. And just over that ridge to the east lies the headwaters of the Wind River, one of the - 3 - frontiers of the mind -- scientific, geographic, cultural -- that remain to be crossed. And SO let's cross them. Last summer, I called 1988 "the year the Earth spoke back." "Time" dubbed Spaceship Earth "the planet of the year." And although, ultimately, medical waste on beaches or that wandering garbage barge may not present as grave a danger as the ozone holes that we cannot see, touch or smell -- they helped provide the jolt that we needed as a nation. And some say we're running out of time. Wrong. The only thing we are running out of is imagination -- and the will to bring what we can imagine to life. And yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And borne upon that wind is a new, breed of environmentalism. Our mission is not just to defend what's left -- but to take the offense, to improve our environment across the board. But it cannot be an American effort alone. As I said in Europe last month, environmental destruction knows no borders. And as the mistrust of the Cold War begins to give way to a new recognition of our common interests, international environmental challenges offer model opportunities for cooperation. I talked about this at the NATO summit to Francois Mitterrand, to Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. And it is universal the concern, international concern, about the environment. Last fall, two whales were saved off American shores by a Soviet icebreaker, a Japanese-built tractor -- and a group of determined American Eskimos with saws and boathooks. And yes, there is a new breeze blowing. And as we speak it is carrying a 156-foot schooner from the Statue of Liberty to Leningrad, an East-West voyage for the environment. And a week ago the airwaves rocked with a five-hour benefit concert -- I confess I didn't listen to all of it -- broadcast around the world from New York, London and Brazil --- for environmental challenges and our common future. And many such international events are symbolic. But here at home, the substance awaits. It's in my new proposals to Congress -- proposals for cleaner air, for an end to acid rain, urban smog, and other toxic emissions. Congress has been deadlocked on clean air for a long time. And when these proposals pass, it will mark the first improvement in the act in 12 years. And other attempts have failed. Competing interests have jammed the avenue to action. And there's been a gridlock. And I understand the traffic jam. Before deciding on these proposals, I met with representatives of business and energy, and mining and chemical groups, and members of Congress. And I met with people like you who share my passion for the great outdoors. And just last Thursday I sat down with the leaders of every major onvironmental in United States. - 4 - debate was carried right into the Tetons. More than 100 years ago, in the summer of 1883, a storm was brewing in Congress over the future of the parks. And President Chester Arthur boarded a train headed west. In Chicago, they warned 'that any reporters who followed would be dropped off the next railroad bridge. Marlin Fitzwater, very interesting. (Laughter.) On August 5th, that train stopped about a hundred miles south of here, at the banks of the Green River, and they embarked by mule wagon for the Wind River Valley. And there the roads ended. And there they began a 350-mile odyssey by horseback, as the President traversed the Tetons and Yellowstone. And winding through Jackson Hole, he was followed by nearly 200 pack animals and 75 cavalry troops. So I hope you'll excuse me -- a little parade that came in here. We were very considerate. (Laughter.) President Arthur emerged from the Tetons and returned to Washington with a new vision of the West, and, unlike me, 105 pounds of trout. And you know how the story ended. You're looking at it --- a scene so unspoiled that it is little different from the view that John Colter first saw in 1808. And yet today even the Tetons cannot escape the threat of pollution. It comes not from steam engines and logging saws, but from the very West Wind that shaped those peaks, bearing the often invisible poisons that gust in from the sun-baked smog of our cities. And it's ironic -- ironic that, as I've visited with people in these mountains, again and again people say how nice it is to get away from urban air pollution. Well, the bad news is, it can follow you here. But the good news is, we are not going to put up with it any longer. Not here, not at home where you summer visitors live most of your lives. (Applause.) We are not. And the clean air initiatives that we launched yesterday nark a new chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and our barks. And our aim is to reduce the "big three" in air pollution: acid rain, urban smog, toxic emissions. at the White House mark a iew chapter in the tradition of protecting our people and their barks. Our aim is to reduce the big three in air pollution -- acid rain, urban smog and toxic emissions. And to stop acid rain, we will cut sulfur dioxide missions nearly in half -- 10 million tons -- and cut nitrogen oxide 'Y two million tons -- before the century is out. And to reduce the emissions that cause smog, we've set an mbitious reduction goal. Our plan will cut emissions from cars and actories, it will promote alternative fuels, and it will launch us owards the goal of clean air in every American city. And that goal ill be reached. (Applause.) - 5 - America's national parks are also living laboratories, where our boundless curiosity is challenged by nature's unbridled forces. Robin Winks, a professor at one of those eastern Ive League schools with which I am familiar, Yale University, has said, "Our parks are universities." They are a whole world of wonder, where family and friends can watch nature at work. And yesterday, as we stopped on the helicopters -- as we landed at one of the burned out areas between here and West Yellowstone, leaned down to look at that charred soil, and you could see coming out of that black, charred soil little tiny green shoots --- nature at work. The power of nature. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way. They have a saying in the Himalayas: "To a flea, alive for 80 days, a man is immortal. And to a man, alive for 80 years, a mountain is immortal. Both are wrong.' And we stand in the shadow of the Tetons -- still an unspoiled frontier thanks to the vision of leaders no longer alive. But it's not the last frontier. After the sun went down last night, we got a glimpse of the frontier beyond. It was up there beyond the peaks -- past the clear mountain air that we want to preserve for all Americans -- up there in the stars. And as we closed our eyes to rest, we saw the frontier beyond the stars -- the frontier within ourselves. In the frontiers ahead, there are no boundaries. We must pioneer new technology, find new solutions, dream new dreams. So look upon these American peaks and at the American people around you, and remember, we've hardly scratched the surface of what God put on Earth -- and what God put in man. Thank you all for what you do every single day to preserve the environment for all mankind. Thank you and God bless you. Thank you very much. (Applause.) END 9:30 A.M. MDT

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