So stoney?
What do you do on the Wilderness Area's to make a Living?
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LAST EDITED ON Jan-22-16
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>I am in support of keeping
>our public lands public and
>I make my living off
>of public land, mostly USFS
>Wilderness areas.
>
>I recognize that we have a
>pretty good mix of private
>and public and realize how
>in the last 100 years
>the general public has come
>to love and respect and
>protect their public hunting and
>recreation opportunities. This is very
>understandable.
>
>With that said private property made
>this nation great and if
>not for our forefathers founding
>principles, of a nation where
>one could own land and
>prosper on it, is the
>cornerstone of our nation. With
>the onslaught and ever growing
>socialist democracy we see a
>big shift in feelings toward
>the distribution of wealth and
>the longing for those have
>nots, to have.
>
>I hope Utah, NM AZ and
>the other states trying to
>take back the public lands
>in those states keep what
>is public, public, and not
>make it state trust lands
>with all of the restrictions
>that places on land.
>
>The public land (excluding wilderness) should
>be managed for sustainable yielding
>multiple uses including grazing, logging,
>mining, oil and gas, hunting,
>fishing, ATV's, camping, wood cutting
>and all consumptive uses. All
>uses should be done with
>good land stewardship as the
>driving factor. We already have
>a good share of the
>public land in Wilderness. In
>the Gila Apache National Forest
>we have 800,000 acres out
>of 3.5 million total FS
>acres. That's almost 25% of
>our public land here in
>the Gila, Aldo Leopold and
>Blue Range Wilderness areas. We
>have very little private land
>here in the southern portion
>of the largest county in
>the State of NM.
>
>Sadly we are losing to both
>Federal over regulation and radical
>environmentals takeovers, using the Endangered
>Species Act as the bludgeon
>and non use by wilderness
>proxy with such things as
>the USFS Roadless Initiatives and
>Travel Management restrictions on game
>retrieval, camping and many other
>restrictions.
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>Here in Catron County NM we
>fear the feds and enviros
>much more than the state
>control of the public land.
>I for one don't think
>the feds and the US
>Congress will ever let it
>happen. I think and I
>may be wrong, that hunters
>have much more to be
>worried about.
"I'm Living & Dieing with the Choices
I've made!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=N8i5NLyXZdc