Posted on 09/16/2015 5:32:57 AM PDT by george76
Despite protests from Mesa County leaders, the Bureau of Land Management is rejecting calls to keep hundreds of trails on public lands from being closed off to use.
BLM officials in Washington D.C. rejected all protests against the Grand Junction area Resource Management Plan in early August, but Mesa County commissioners said they didn’t receive a notice of refusal from the federal agency until last week.
In the rejection letter, federal officials said the county's complaints were without merit, and the B.L.M workers tasked with researching and writing the updated rule book for the public lands usage have done their due diligence.
The Resource Management Plan (RMP) for Mesa County’s public lands have been in the works for about seven years. County leaders,as well as dozens of other residents invested in the area, had a multitude of opportunities to comment throughout the process, but the end product is still drawing criticism.
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The board of county commissioners is now mulling over legal action against the BLM, and county officials are in the process of writing up an appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals. The commissioners will be voting on whether to ultimately move forward with the appeal at Monday’s public hearing. Anyone interested in the matter is welcome to attend the meeting and voice their opinion.
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Well, we know of a way to make the BLM back down.
Sign of the times: I read the headline and my initial reaction was, what does Black Lives Matter care about public trails in Colorado?
Hmm makes you wonder wonder if they’re building a huge underground bunker there in some cave to house gov officials in the event of a nuclear holocaust. There are vast caverns all underneath Colorado.
Complete 180. It should be just the opposite. Make the feds prove to the local public why they should take and control the local lane. Let a local Judge decide, someone who is elected, answers, and in accountable to the locals.
I’d personally like to see the BLM be given a four-year period to turn all BLM property over to individual states, with a stipulated rule that the states can do anything they want with the property, except sell it to private individuals. The idea that some guy in DC will know the right thing to do and be ethical about the usage....is a joke. If a state wants to use the property for something to make added taxation for the state....it ought to be their choice, and not DC political thugs.
It’s time for each state to take back land stolen by the federalis.
Is this a maintenance cost issue, or is BLM trying to nudge the area towards wilderness?
The recent EPA wastewater spill could breathe new life into a conversation about state control over federal lands.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3337398/posts
Closing historical trails and roads also violates RS 2477 rights-of-way law = towards wilderness
Surprise, Surprise
Black Lives Matter has gone too far.
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Someone explain to this dummy what this means:
Land management rejects protests to keep roads open i.e., land management wants the roads open or they want the roads closed?
What an awkward headline.
Shouldn’t public lands be open to the public?
Land grab. Nothing less.
The executive branch of federal government [ BLM & USFS ] have been closing historical roads and trails without permission of the states nor the public. They also violate Federal law : RS 2477.
-2- They close public lands to the public; also ignoring Congress and the US Constitution.
Yes. : Land of Many Uses.
Thanks, george76, and those who post that control of such things being States’ purview are absolutely correct. How did the feds manage the takeover of so much land? I guess because we (I) weren’t (wasn’t) paying attention.
They have been subtle all these years. One thing Obama has done...NOW, we are paying attention.
BLM is a tool in the Obama Population Control, we hate people agenda.
No development, no access, no self-sufficiency.
Time for the States to kick out the Feds.
“what does Black Lives Matter care about public trails in Colorado? “
I’m the opposite, when I see headlines that abbreviate Black Lies Matter as BLM, I always say “What are those jack booted government thugs doing in Baltimore?”
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