Posted on 12/09/2012 2:06:07 PM PST by george76
Grand County companies whose owners signed a letter to President Obama supporting federal protection for 1.4 million acres surrounding Canyonlands National Park are facing an economic boycott that some say has been spurred by the locally-based Sagebrush Coalition.
The coalition’s Facebook page includes a list of local and national companies that signed the Nov. 13 letter from the Outdoor Industry Association urging Obama to create the Greater Canyonlands National Monument.
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Sagebrush Coalition president James Tibbetts ... opposes monument status for land around Canyonlands National Park because it isn’t necessary.
“We’ve used it all these years and we haven’t ruined anything,” he said.
Tibbetts also objects to Obama possibly using the Antiquities Act for the designation, saying, “It bypasses Congress, the people, everybody.”
Sagebrush Coalition members are circulating petitions among people who want to block national monument status. Tibbetts said the petitions will be given to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert; U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources; U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch; and others.
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a push by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance to get more protection for the Canyonlands area.
The effort by SUWA has been going on since March 2011, when SUWA joined with the Sierra Club and many other groups asking the Secretary of the Interior to bar off-road vehicle use on 1,050 miles of ORV routes in “sensitive habitat, streams, wetlands, riparian areas, archaeological sites and other vulnerable areas”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesindependent.com ...
Interesting on several different levels
Not just Utah, George76. No. Calif. and So. Oregon are still targets for more ‘national monuments’.
One of these days we’ll turn around and notice we don’t own ANY of the land any more.
Yet elsewhere, how many acres are being shaded out with solar panels?
...But theirs.
Don't leave out the EIS (Economic Impact Statement).
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