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10 Nat. Resources L. Newsl. 1 (1977-1978)

handle is hein.journals/trends10 and id is 1 raw text is: ED CLYDE COMPLETES TERM AS CHAIRMAN Thanks to the combined efforts of many people, the Section has had what I consider to be a successful year. Special thanks should be extended to Burns Er- rebo for his long and faithful ! ., service as secretary of the Sec- tion, and to Marian Zehner, who has the responsibility of breaking in a new chairman to ABA procedures every year. Bill Tell and Clyde Hampton were largely responsible for our ex- cellent Annual Meeting pro- gram, and Joe Hammond made the arrangements for our Sec- Edward W. Clyde tion Dinner. The committee chairmen and the coun- cil members are for the most part all functioning in a dedicated and conscientious manner. This, of course, is where the Section work is being done, and the sup- port of these people is indispensable to the success of the Section. Our membership for the first time in the section history exceeds 5,000 members. We have held a significant number of workshops and programs which have been useful and of excellent quality. The years immediately ahead are certain to prove extremely important to the Section. We are for- tunately well organized for the task. The necessity for the development of a national energy policy should be self-evident. Too little progress has been made since the oil embargo. Conservation of energy has been only moderately successful, and the task of con- verting to other sources of energy is almost in limbo. Coal leasing is at a standstill, and we are meeting our ever-increasing demand for energy by more and more imports of oil. Without an energy policy, the risks are high, and we heard at the Annual Meeting that the federal government is a major part of that risk - and I agree. President Carter apparently intends to reformulate a national water policy. There has, in my opinion, been too little input on the part of the states, and in any event, it seems to me that the national policy on water should be developed in Congress. The present (continued on page 2) CARROLL GILLIAM ASSUMES SECTION CHAIRMANSHIP We begin a new year. For the ABA, a centennial will be celebrated in 1978; and for the Section, more than a half century has passed since our founding by a small group of lawyers in Den- ver's Brown Palace Hotel in 1926. Since those beginnings, much has changed, but much has not. Today, discussion of natural resources is accompanied fre- quently by the rhetoric of crisis and occasionally by incomplete information, mere faith, or obsolete bias; but law, lawyers, Carroll L. Gilam and legal institutions still must fulfill their traditional roles in civilized society. We still must provide means for sorting fact from fiction, for orderly review of conflicting positions, and for decisions consistent not only with current perceptions of national needs, but also with the existing rights of individuals and legitimate expectations for the generations yet to come. Over the years, lawyers practicing in natural resources law, whether in law firms, industry, government, or public interest organizations, have shared an awareness of just how precious natural resources are, and we thus should welcome the in- creasing attention of those in power and the public generally. We also cannot and should not stand aside from current debate, because we do share in the responsibility; and, as events of recent years reflect, lawyers and legal institutions receive far more than a fair share of blame when something goes awry. (continued on page 4) Section Membership (as of August 31, 1977) Law Members Associates Students 1977 5,041 67 631 1976 4,610 75 828 Copyright , 1977 American Bar Association Produced by O~e ABA Press

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