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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***trails on public lands***
I take it PUBLIC LANDS are no longer for the PUBLIC.
Public?
Sorry. Beat me.
The King’s men think that this is the King’s land and that we are only allowed a short visit to the King’s forest if we pre-pay the dhimmi jizyah taxes.
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It’s not really complicated. This is incremental implementation of Agenda 21 on a local level.
I was wondering how many replies I would have to read before I came upon one person who knew the truth.
It’s very easy to see.
Thanks.
Yes. United Nations Agenda 21 .
Worth repeating! Well said!
The tyranny keeps growing.
Thanks for the ping!
Hopefully : The board of county commissioners will sue the BLM and win. Still : big waste of taxpayers’ money all around.
King’s men is right and they’ve proved they believe that more and more as the years pass, BLM has become nothing more than an extension of the enviro-nazis.
We need a president that will abolish the BLM and turn those public lands over to the states. Period.
There. I fixed it.
What schlubs thought these "public" lands were really owned by the public?
Really? Where are they? I would love to see some.
It’s time for each state to take back land stolen by the federalis.
That’s right. Besides, no law was passed here. this should be ignored.
There’s lots of caves in Clolorado - http://www.coloradocaves.org/
Thanks for the link!
Amazing the amount of time, resources, and money spent on this. All over a regulation imposed from afar. And angst which stems from an overwhelming, visceral desire to be obedient to caesars edicts. Regardless of how ill conceived.
However, some coloradans will hear about this and think “boltcutters.”
Most of it was misapplication of the Equal Footing Doctrine when those States were admitted to the Union. Congress (illegally) reserved territorial lands as a bank upon which to collect campaign contributions from land developers in timber, ranching, and mining at the Federal level. Eastern investors preferred those constraints of whom Frederick Weyerhaeuser was probably the most obvious.
The problem is that Gov Hickenlooper will stop the counties from pursuing this lawsuit.
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