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Sierra Club opposes destruction of park land
Wednesday, September 17 1980
By Charles Vaughn
For 20 years, the Nebraska Department of Roads has
been trying to construct a bypass connecting highway 77
and Interstate 80.
According to Karen Flowers, an attorney for the Blue
stem Sierra Club, it is not the construction of the bypass
that is causing such a delay, but the destruction it will
cause in the process.
The department wants to run the bypass through
WOdemess Park southwest of Lincoln. Flowers said this is
a violation of a 1968 federal law that prohibits misuse of
park grounds.
Flowers said the department is trying to take advantage
of a "loophole" in the law which allows for the use of
park lands if the estimated project cost becomes extreme
ly high.
"If the project comes to extreme costs, then the park
land can be used," Flowers said. "But then the public
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must be told exactly what will happen to the land."
The Bluestem Sierra Club formed the Citizens to Pre
serve Wilderness Park as a protest to the department's
actions.
"We don't dispute the issue that a bypass is needed,"
said Paul Stoesz. Citizens to Preserve Wilderness Park
chairperson, "The real issue is where to locate the bypass.
Our suggestion is to place it somewhere between the
Regional Center and Pioneers Park so it's away from the
park."
The department wants to construct the bypass through
the camp area. But Marge Schlitt, CPWP secretary, said
the day camp is heavily used.
"There is no real alternate sight for the day camp,"
Schlitt said. "It is unique because it's the only large area
of Wilderness Park not in the flood plain and it's the only
area not directly near a highway or railroad."
Sierra Club member Dan Schlitt said a study on the
costs of building the bypass west of the Regional Center
showed it would not cost the state any more than building
it in the day camp area.
"Their argument against our suggested west alternative
is that they would have to build bridges and this would be
too challenging to design Schlitt said. I think the main
problem is political. The state rents out the land (west of
the Regional Center) to farmers.
"They also say that they are afraid people would not
travel through our suggested area. They made a bad
decision but won't admit that they were wrong," he said.
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