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Utah BLM settlement

The_Texan
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Have not read the proposal but a good friend with the state has and says it is a win win for us.

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Searching_Ut
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eubank wrote:
One of the main environmental organizations in this case is the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Read the article.
Lynn


zigzagrv wrote:
I believe the people of Utah should be the ones to decide how their land is to be used, not bureaucrats from DC or environmentalist organizations from California and other states.


For the most part, SUWA isn't a Utah organization. Most of their very deep pocketbooks and membership don't come from the state, or residents of the state.

The legal arguments they are currently "Settling" have been going on for years, and basically this agreement just says the BLM has to follow the already existing laws and regulations on management of these lands. Having been someone who explored a lot of these areas off and on over the decades, I actually testified a couple times a little over 8 years ago regarding road access that existed in some areas in question 40 or 50 years ago. The approaches to the argument have changed a bunch as it went along, and in the end, a whole lot of money was spent that would probably have been better used to actually manage the recourses.
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eubank
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One of the main environmental organizations in this case is the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Read the article.
Lynn


zigzagrv wrote:
I believe the people of Utah should be the ones to decide how their land is to be used, not bureaucrats from DC or environmentalist organizations from California and other states.

fj12ryder
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zigzagrv wrote:
I believe the people of Utah should be the ones to decide how their land is to be used, not bureaucrats from DC or environmentalist organizations from California and other states.
Nice to think so, but hindsight has shown that people are amazingly short sighted on a lot of subjects. Consider how many game animals were hunted almost to extinction before "environmentalist organizations" stepped in with hunting regulations. And clear cutting was common practice until it was show how damaging it could be.
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aguablanco
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Captain_Happy wrote:
Californians have enough problems of there own to handle without sticking there noses into everyone else's business. And that also goes for all those tree huggers.


First off, the land belongs to the all people of the United States, not just those in Utah. Second, if not for the tree huggers, which you seem to disparage, we would all be "camping" in parking lots. If I remember correctly the United States acquired that land in the Mexican American War 1846-48. Utah gained statehood in 1896. The US did not cede all of of the land to the state and had no obligation to do so.
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Captain_Happy
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Californians have enough problems of there own to handle without sticking there noses into everyone else's business. And that also goes for all those tree huggers.

zigzagrv
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I believe the people of Utah should be the ones to decide how their land is to be used, not bureaucrats from DC or environmentalist organizations from California and other states.

Ron



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