Posted on 07/27/2015 8:28:15 PM PDT by george76
U.S. Forest Service ranger told Montezuma County commissioners this week that local officials continue to overstep their authority in regard to the Dolores-Norwood Road.
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Earlier this year, Montezuma County officials installed a dozen “Share the Road” signs accommodating off-highway vehicle use on county roads, including the Dolores-Norwood Road.
To clarify any confusion, Montezuma County attorney John Baxter told commissioners on Monday that people were allowed to operate off-highway vehicles on the roadway.
“Not according to our travel management rules,” Padilla interrupted.
“Your travel management rule is incorrect,” Baxter replied.
Baxter continued, stating that federal officials had yet to provide any evidence that the roadway had ever been transferred to the Forest Service.
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Baxter contended that the issue could be informally resolved if federal officials would simply agree to sign over jurisdiction.
“We say it’s ours,” Baxter told Padilla. “If you think it’s yours, then maybe you should take us to court.”
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The jurisdictional issue over the corridor initially surfaced in 2013. The 55-mile, mostly graveled, network of roads passes through portions of Montezuma, Dolores, and San Miguel counties and the San Juan National and Uncompahgre national forests.
Upset about commercial travel fees and regulation by the U.S. Forest Service, Montezuma County officials have claimed historic-use rights utilizing Revised Statute 2477.
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Ah yes! How well I remember good old "Revised Statute 2477," "Home Rule" and all the other things that Federal Bureaucrats love to snear at local elected officials as "Sagebrush Rebellion," or "County Supremacy Movement," or some other dismissive and pejorative slur on the government closest to the people!!!
I once won a campaign based on a banner saying I and my committee wanted "a county government open under new attitude!" I think Trump is expressing the same sentiment in a slightly different way.
One can only hope that if he should happen to win, that he governs with a humble attitude that doesn't cater to the tyrannical whims of liberals and pointy headed academics!!!
This Jihad by the feds is expanding.
The ghost of progressive Teddy Roosevelt is out of control.
Neither Teddy, nor Franklin Roosevelt was ever a constitutional conservative and neither should have been memorialized on Rushmore!!! (IMO)
Good for Montezuma, Dolores, and San Miguel counties.
Many people in rural areas are standing up for freedom.
Well, I’m here.
Hope you’re good!
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