Um,

so there wasn't a lot of attention paid to that.

It was really a lot of work on, um, natural resources, on wildlife, on geology, although the park didn't even have a park geologist at that point in time.

And the only reason there was an archaeologist is because of the National Historic Preservation Act and the legal compliance requirements.

So there wasn't a lot of focus on science at all.

The resource management staff was tiny, kind of stuck in the back of a trailer a building at the clinic at the wherever they could find a place and there wasn't the thought that we were managing the park with resource values was something that seemed to be a little foreign to the managers in the 70s and 80s and 80s when I started and it started to grow with more and more environmental concerns and it really came to a and about the forefront with the high water of 1983 with operations and dams, which all of a sudden laser focused folks on what was going on ecologically.

They'd been looking at some of the stuff on the river.

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