University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 11, 1976
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Oklahoma part of Tallgrass bill
By KELLY SCOTT
Staff Writer
Supporters of a Tallgrass Prairie Park in Kansas may have to share it with Oklahoma if the National Park Service selects a $2,900 acre site that stretches from northern Oklahoma to the Flint Hills in southern Kansas.
A bill proposing the Kansas park was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in July by Rep. Larry Winn, R-Lawrence.
The park service has narrowed 87 possible sites from across the country to three, but only detailed plans for the area including part of Osage County, Okla, and the eastern slope of the Flint Hills have been issued.
Charles Stough, president of Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc., said yesterday that five persons from the organization who were involved in the management would study the three sites and write a report of them within 60 days. The Oklahoma-Kansas site hasn't been
The Oklahoma-Kansas site hasn't been officially chosen, he said.
Sough said the group had hoped to obtain a public hearing so that they could testify before the Insular Association subcommittee of the Senate, where the bill is now pending. In the House, where the bill is now pending.
James Hamrick, associate professor of botany and Lawrence Sierra Club chairman, said the progress of the park proposal could ston there.
Rep. Joe Skubitz, R-Kan., is the ranking Republican on the house subcommittee and he opposes Kansas land being taken up for a park, Hannrick said.
"Every year (Rep. Larry) Wun put the
yearly year Skullbuck shoots it
down," he said.
Skubals, the other Kansas congressman and Sena. Robert Dole, R-Kan., and James L. Bickel, R-Kan.
Congressmen and senators from other states, where the Sierra Club has supported national parks, have worked for the parks, Harris said.
Winn is the only Kansas congressman who supports the park.
Only five families live on the Osage
land, and they said, and they are
lesses, not owners.
He said that maximum oil recovery of any oil deposits beneath the land in Kansas had already been made. In Oklahoma, however, there is opposition to the park because not all potential oil lands have been explored, he said, and there may be trouble in obtaining the rights to the land from the Osage Indians who now own it.
Hamrick said another argument against the park was that it would drastically reduce the amount of farmable land in Kansas.
Skubatz thinks his district, which includes the area that would become a park, is undergoing major changes.
"Environmental groups in Kansas don't have the vote clout they carry in Colorado and Wyoming," he said. "At least, not as much as they do to invests in the western part of the state."
One advantage that the bill might have this year, Hamrick said, is that the park
Debate . . .
From page one
SHAPIRO SAID that $10,000 was a more realistic allocation and that there should be some balance in the amount of money the senate allocated to organizations.
Tasheff said that student representation on the KUAC board wasn't what it should have been and that the Senate's commitment to KUAC should be redefined.
Shipard, as chairman of the Senate Sports
Board, was a representative on the
KIUAC board.
BOTH CANDIDATES were in favor of some sort of satellite union facility.
An $7.50 increase in student fees for the next 30 years wasn't a completely unreasonable way to finance the new building, he said.
Shapiro said that, because of the 99 per cent occupancy of the Daisy Hill residence halls, and the locations of the new law building and new fine arts facility, west campus had a definite need for the services a satellite union would provide.
STUDENTS COULD have a restaurant, bookstore and check cashing services for students.
Owens recognized the west campus needs, but said that $7.50 was too much to ask students to pay when they could have essential services for $4.50 a student.
The candidates were asked to reveal any skeletons they had hidden in the closet.
Shapiro took his flight to Madison, Wis., paid for by KUAC, was a potential skeleton. He defended his action of accepting the trip by saying it gave him a chance to be an alumnus for the University. He insight into the workings of the KUAC board and was similar to the Kansas Honors Banquets because it gave him contacts with alumni.
Tasheff, Anderson and Owens said they had no conflicts of interest.
Tasheff and Shapiro favored a better campus transportation system. They both attended the Senate Transportation Committee conducted by the Senate Transportation Committee would lead to Federal funding and an agreement with the Lawrence City Commission for an expanded and improved
TASHIEF SAID she would support an increase in the student transportation fee, which subsidized KU-On-Wheels, to fund the transportation study or to support the present system.
Shapiro would support a fee increase if a federal funding bid by the Lawcity Commission for a city-wide bus system failed.
Kansas State University recognizes the campus gay liberation movement. The candidates were asked for their response to questions about harassment and firing, Lawrence Gay Liberation, Inc.
"It's a very touchy subject," Shapiro said.
SHAPIRO SAID the group shouldn't be recognized or funded.
Tasheff said the Senate shouldn't recognize the organization until the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs did. It shouldn't be funded because many of the people the organization served weren't KU students, she said.
service has narrowed its consideration to three prime park sites.
The bill's opposition has become localized, Stough said, and could weaken. Harrisck said the Sierra Club had hoped Skubtz would provide land and water yet, but said that Skubtz had recently announced plans to run for re-election this fall.
The bill's opposition has become localized. Slowly said, and could weaken.
The issue of the Tallgrass Prairie Park in Skokitty, a local issue in Skokitty's district, he said.
being 'soft' on pro-park people, ' ' he said
They actually acuse candidates of
s out on pro-park people," he said. Also, candidates that the Club learned were thinking of running for Skubie's seat to the park than to the park with Skubte. Hamrick said.
If Skubitz retired, a Kansas representative wouldn't be on the subcommittee. The bill, if recommended favorably, would proceed to the House Interior and Imaginal Affairs Committee, where representatives from states that might be favorable to conservation issues would consider it, Hamrick said.
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