Posted on 12/04/2017 1:46:14 PM PST by bobsunshine
Former Navy SEAL and current Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke delivers brief remarks at the Capitol Building in Utah.
Prior to President Trump signing a national monument proclamation, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told a packed-house crowd the Antiquities Act, an obscure law that Barack Obama used to broaden federal monuments in Utah, ‘was never meant to prevent. It was meant to protect.’ “Our public land is for the public to use,” Zinke said.
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This looks like a good thing to me. From what it appears, the Dems used some obscure legislation, not meant for how it was used, to close off land from any use up to and maybe even including just walking through.
We need a map showing number of recreational users per day per square mile of these “parks”. Anywhere with a value vanishingly close to zero isn’t a “park”, it’s “get off the king’s land”.
I appreciate keeping interesting land for low-impact recreational use.
I’ve also seen plenty of land* which is virtually inaccessible and staggeringly unsuited for recreational use (save for the most adventurous & masochistic).
(* - recall flying cross-country, seeing a desert area of impassable undulating waves of rock. Desperately want to find where that was, if only for the abject remoteness & isolation.)
Utah, Arizona, Nevada, etc, have areas just like that.
Utah is spectacular, so is Arizona, Colorado - there is enough land for everybody. Hikers, horses, jeep trails, bicyclists, and loggers and natural gas drilling, mining, military bases, private development. I’ve hiked thousands of miles in backcountry, national parks and bureau of land management, national forests etc. It’s absolutely amazing the different landscapes. But leftists are way too extreme, and very hypocritical. I know this because I used to think that way too. Or thought I did.
They may couch it in glowing terms, and “the environment” and saving the planet, but it’s mostly BS, whether they even realize it. The issue isn’t the issue, the real radicals don’t want ANY resource extraction of ANY kind. They use the federal government to effect that. My view is that Utah isn’t a museum. They have huge areas set aside in federal parks. It should largely be up to Utahns as far as I’m concerned. Maybe they’ll decide to lock it all up, I don’t know. “These are public lands!” some people say, well OK.
What if the public happens wants to log, mine, and drill the shit out of it? Is that OK? Well.. no. Everything is situational with leftists. So long as they got theirs, $&uck everybody else. Most selfish, uncaring, hypocritical and disturbing individuals I’ve ever met.
YES!!
Oh, my goodness, HOW long, how many decades, have we been waiting for a president who gets it on this issue!
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Donald Trump’s best quality? HE LISTENS!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2015/09/donald-trumps-best-quality-he-listens.html
Amen Aunt B.
“Oh, my goodness, HOW long, how many decades, have we been waiting for a president who gets it on this issue!
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
I wonder, what if anything he will do about the dam removal on the Klamath River watershed.
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