Go, Utah!
Another Sagebrush Rebellion ?
Woooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo! Go Utah!
I was near the last Sagebrush Rebellion, it was in Catron County, NM and I lived in Grant Count, NM (adjoining county).
Those old ranchers were pretty sharp guys.
Good fer them. If the revenooers come pokin around....well.
About time Utah pushed back against these DemocRat presidents who use federal antiquity laws to punish them for not voting democRat.
The only thing the Federal government will do is prohibit further energy development, because it is totally controlled by “environmentalists”.
H*ll Yah! This is BIG BIG! The clean coal in UT is worth hundreds of billions of $$ and the development could reboot our NATIONAL economy plus CREATE real wealth for Americans insetad of someone’s bosses the Saudis.
This is a state rights issue. The Fed govt STOLE this property. Utah needs to use the 9th and 10th Amendments to tell Uncle Welfare Sam to get screwed. I love UT and Mormons. The Mormons had the guts to stand up for Prop 8 in CA.
Heck yah! Love Utah. Do not back down UT guys and gals!! this is BIG!
GO UTAH!!!!!!!!
That almost silent rustle that you are hearing is the sound of sprouting cajones.
Ronald Reagan declared himself a sagebrush rebel in 1981. He cut federal funding for research on energy conservation and renewable energy resources. Reagan was faced with opposition with conservation organizations. This struggle persists today after changing form, with the “wise-use movement” in 1988. George H. W. Bush undercut environmental laws helping mining, ranching, and real estate developing industries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_rebels
Get your boots on and saddle up boys...
Is Karl Malone a Republican?
Ping.
Its the same in California.
The feds are trying to close all roads and trails in the Sierra forests. We saw a USFS employee ram her pickup truck into the portable toilet at a trail staging area, just to have an excuse to shut it down.
Bump for Utah!
10th Amendment
All lands in the east that are National Parks etc. were purchased or donated in ownership to the federal government.
West of the Mississippi, the lands not settled were at first public domain. When they had been surveyed and made available for homestead under acts of prescription leading to a land patent, they became “public lands.” (Supreme Court definition.)
Around the early 1900s, the federal government “reserved” lands with forests from settlement. These Forest Reserves became the National Forests. Lands not disposed of that were used for grazing to which some split estate interest had accrued were organized under the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934 so that there could be some management oversight from overgrazing by wandering sheep herds. These lands were to be kept in trust for the people of the states in which they lay.
Under FLPMA in the 1970s, the federal government just decreed that it would retain all the lands not settled in federal ownership - in effect violating that trust.
Under the equal footing doctrine, all states are to be equal. In the West, lands in many states are still in federal ownership. This is not equal footing. The Civil War is over and the east coast should be divested of its hegemony over the west. The Western states are all grown up now and should be given back their inheritance.
All land should belong to either the state or the private individual. The only exception being military installations. The Fed should have no state land under its control.