Climbers & Hunters on Public Land

grizzly

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"Some 91% of Westerners agree that national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other federal lands are essential to their state?s economic prosperity, but Americans who support protecting public lands are badly splintered. Hunters and anglers love and value our public lands, but the ?hook and bullet? crowd scares off environmentalists and some businesspeople. Environmentalists love and value our public lands, but hardcore activists scare off most businesspeople and some hunters and anglers. Businesspeople love and value our public lands, but lots of folks get skeptical when corporations are involved in advocacy.

We need to work together to protect our public lands. We all value access to wild places where our air, water and wildlife are safe from pollution and development. We all benefit from the enormous economy generated by the conservation of our lands. And we all hate getting ripped off by hucksters posing as smart businesspeople, threatening not just our economy but our American heritage as well."

--The Founder of Patagonia, in an LA Times Op-Ed piece.

Though many of us have differing opinions on how to protect Bears Ears, most of us agree the area should be protected. And it is nice to see somebody try to tear down invisible walls hoping to work together for a common cause. I think that's something we can all agree on.

Grizzly
 
>In all seriousness, what were we
>protecting Bears Ears from?

From the expanding effects of oil exploration that has already consumed the New Mexico side of the Four Corners area.

There are already 40,000 wells in northwest New Mexico and new discoveries or improved technology make the corresponding southeast-Utah side of Four Corners a reasonably-likely location for a future oil/gas boom.

Take a look at the area around Farmington, NM on Google Earth and you'll see that land can never be reclaimed from the damage that has been done be drilling. I've hunted in 2B and 2C multiple times and I'll tell you, the damage is even worse when you're actually on the ground there.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...4c3e6e-8d1f-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html

Grizzly
 
It's very selfish and naive to think things are always going to say the same. My youngest brother drew a book cliffs elk tag last year. I don't go with but my other brother did, he said many of the places where we hunted just five years ago were unrecognizable . Pump stations and buildings , roads everywhere.

And that's just one example, I have seen enormous changes in Nevada during the past 40 years. It's just a sad fact of life that we need to designate and protect places that are somewhat pristine, if you want the next generation to have them intact anyway.
 
Obama didn't want My Truck to Idle!

JUDAS!

F'N!

PRIEST!

But They Can Flare Gas Around here Unlimited!

And piper?

Did Your Brother Mention Tar Sand Removal in the Book Cliffs?

They've been Toying around with Tar Sands for Years!

And Some of them have left one Hell of a Mess!

Not Sayin they Can't make money when Oil Prices are Sky High but compared to one Oil Well it's a JOKE & I Don't know how many of you have seen what they're doing to the lay of the Land?

Let's Protect Our Public Lands but Let's Not Over Protect Them and Don't Let the Greedy State Get their Paws on the Public Land or it will be Sold & Taxed & We won't know Our Public Lands as we do know/use them today!

We've got some Real F'N Dandies Runnin this State that would Love to take it all away from You!













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