Jim is quite right. The BLM is a rogue agency in criminal league with the EPA, the Sierra Club, and greedy politicians. The original intent for shared use of public lands by everyone for economic purposes is long gone. The goals are now to reserve such use to the privileged elite who live in cities.
Such is the risk when government owns all the land. See the Magna Carta.
Agreed. Thanks, centurion 316.
During the months that I spent working for the Forest service in 79-80, the USFS lived by the rule of “multiple use”. I worked supporting timber sales and building campgrounds. We were looking at using timber sales to create fire breaks and open up land for grazing.
Those days are long gone. The USFS has gone preservationist, as has the BLM. The Park Service has always been that way. About 30 miles from where I’m sitting, they dug up paved roads that had been there for 50 years so they could call the land a ‘wilderness area’. It was completely and totally dishonest.
My concern is that I don’t know what one does when a society has become as dishonest as ours now is. What good does it do to pass a law if the President is free to ignore it or change it on his whims, and the GOP does nothing to stop him? If the GOP House won’t even hold his feet to the fire on changing Obamacare daily, what hope do we have? The Jr Senator from Arizona ran as a supposed Tea Party type conservative, then turned hard left immediately after winning - Jeff McFlake, buttboy to John McCain. If we cannot even get an honest conservative in Arizona, what hope is there?