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Moab Area Trails under attack-AGAIN!!!
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ZachsXJ
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- Richmond, Va
This just further convinces me that our country is being run by a bunch of idiots. Gosh my government and environmentalists frustrate me :soapbox:
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- Wasatch Range
Not idiots, cunning and calculating Marxist......see Cuba and Venezuala.
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- Wasatch Range
SUWA and Utah Wilderness Coalition are eco-terrorist organizations with an agenda that demonizes motorized recreation and restrict our Freedoms. They have a track record of being less than honest in how they collect signatures on petitions.
A few years back, SUWA had folks stationed at trailheads during Jeep Safari to gather signatures from mtn bikers and hikers, under the guise that the petition was to restrict access to motorized vehicles on the trails that they wanted for themselves......(oddly enough, these trails that they were laying claim to were created by miners, ranchers and motorcyclist over the past century, long before Moab was a destination for tourism).......only to discover later that the BLM trail closures and Wilderness Study Area designations restricted "all mechanical forms of transportation"........including mtn bikes. :twak:
Their most recent effort is H.R.1925 - America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 which is a 20 yr evolution of attempting to create more wilderness by closing areas that are currently being used for mining, gas and oil exploration, ranching and OHV use.
"America's Red Rock Wilderness Act, introduced by true champions Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, also has bipartisan support. It has a remarkable 139 cosponsors in the House and 31 in the senate-that's almost 1 out of every 3 Members of Congress."
None of the supporting Congress members are from Utah
Zoom out a little and look at Utah from 20 miles up http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/ut.pdf
What you see in White is private land ownership!
Over 70 percent of the land in Utah is BLM, Utah State Trust, US Natl Parks, US Forest Service US Natl. Monument, Natl. Rec Area or US Wilderness Area land.
Math time............
A few years back, SUWA had folks stationed at trailheads during Jeep Safari to gather signatures from mtn bikers and hikers, under the guise that the petition was to restrict access to motorized vehicles on the trails that they wanted for themselves......(oddly enough, these trails that they were laying claim to were created by miners, ranchers and motorcyclist over the past century, long before Moab was a destination for tourism).......only to discover later that the BLM trail closures and Wilderness Study Area designations restricted "all mechanical forms of transportation"........including mtn bikes. :twak:
Their most recent effort is H.R.1925 - America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 which is a 20 yr evolution of attempting to create more wilderness by closing areas that are currently being used for mining, gas and oil exploration, ranching and OHV use.
"America's Red Rock Wilderness Act, introduced by true champions Senator Richard Durbin and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, also has bipartisan support. It has a remarkable 139 cosponsors in the House and 31 in the senate-that's almost 1 out of every 3 Members of Congress."
None of the supporting Congress members are from Utah
Zoom out a little and look at Utah from 20 miles up http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/ut.pdf
What you see in White is private land ownership!
Over 70 percent of the land in Utah is BLM, Utah State Trust, US Natl Parks, US Forest Service US Natl. Monument, Natl. Rec Area or US Wilderness Area land.
Math time............
- 70% of Utah's 84,889 sq miles is controlled by the government (59,422 sq miles)
- 59,422 sq miles x 640 = 38,000,000 acres of government controlled land
- The U.S. Forest Service administers 774,520 acres of wilderness across the state
- Paria Canyon Wilderness/Southcentral Utah- 20,000 acres
- Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness/Southwestern Utah-2,600 acres.
- BLM also administers 95 blocks, totaling 3,258,250 acres, of public land which are currently being considered for wilderness designation
- Current total of 4,055,370 acres of land in Utah is designated as Wilderness or WSA which has the same restricted access
Compare to existing Utah land controlled by the goverment:
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