DonMartin
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Well I hope all you guys can put away your differences long enough to address something I just found out about.
One of my Board of Supervisors, Gary Watson, sent me a document on Friday entitled, "Conserving the Grand Canyon Watershed, A proposal for National Monument Designation."
This document and proposal is being proposed by the Center For Biological Diversity, Public Lands Campaign Director Taylor McKinnon, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Conservation Director Kim Crumbo, and Nicole Layman, Western Lands Campaign Associate.
These are the areas listed as part of the Grand Canyon Watershed that is proposed for listing as part of the National Monument designation.
"Five distinctive and diverse geographic areas comprise the proposed Monument: The Kaibab Plateau, the Kaibab-Paunsagunt Wildlife Corridor. Kanab Creek Watershed, House Rock Valley, and the South Rim Headwaters,...." (Page ii)
The total proposed monument would be 1.7 MILLION acres!
This is about a 20+ page document. I can send it to you via e-mail. Just send me your address to [email protected]
According to the document, "National monument designation for the Grand Canyon Watershed would: Permanently protect old growth forests, protect native wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors, protect archeological sites and traditional tribal access, reduce road density, provide for voluntary retirement of grazing permits, prevent new uranium mines." (Page iii)
Of particular interest to me was the reference to mountain lions in no less than four times, but also bears- black and grizzly, who are mentioned no less than three times! And here are some of the statements that are listed in this document. ""Black bear one inhabited the North Kaibab, as did grizzly bear and gray wolves."(Page 8) "A luck visitor might catch a glimpse of an occasional black bear roaming the forest once haunted by gray wolves, jaguars and the mighty grizzly bears." (Page 2)
Wolves are mentioned at least FOUR times in the document, What about this statement? "National monument designation can explicitly emphasize protection and and restoration of viable and ecological effective native wildlife populations by calling on both the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior to expeditiously authorize a scientifically credible analysis of the current and protected status of keystone species including the Kaibab squirrel, goshawk and mountain lions, as well as an analysis regarding recovery of extirpated wildlife such as bears and wolves." (Page 4)
I go on and on but you got to read this for yourself. I think what they want is very clear.
Does anyone else see the words, black bears, grizzly bears, jaguars, lions, and wolves as red flags?
Can there be any doubt as to what this is all about?
Get the proposal, read it, and send it to 100 of your friends.
These same folks are well aware of all the infighting that is still unfortunately going on among sportsmen over HB2072.
You think the timing is this is purely coincidental?
Right now we (sportsmen) seem to be a rag tag, disorganized group who are still hell bent on eating our own.
If we don't get together, and do it quick, and this goes through, we will lose forever another crown jewel of Arizona heritage and Arizona's wildlife!
Don Martin
Govt Liaison
Mohave Sportsman Club
Kingman, AZ
928-303-9481
One of my Board of Supervisors, Gary Watson, sent me a document on Friday entitled, "Conserving the Grand Canyon Watershed, A proposal for National Monument Designation."
This document and proposal is being proposed by the Center For Biological Diversity, Public Lands Campaign Director Taylor McKinnon, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Conservation Director Kim Crumbo, and Nicole Layman, Western Lands Campaign Associate.
These are the areas listed as part of the Grand Canyon Watershed that is proposed for listing as part of the National Monument designation.
"Five distinctive and diverse geographic areas comprise the proposed Monument: The Kaibab Plateau, the Kaibab-Paunsagunt Wildlife Corridor. Kanab Creek Watershed, House Rock Valley, and the South Rim Headwaters,...." (Page ii)
The total proposed monument would be 1.7 MILLION acres!
This is about a 20+ page document. I can send it to you via e-mail. Just send me your address to [email protected]
According to the document, "National monument designation for the Grand Canyon Watershed would: Permanently protect old growth forests, protect native wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors, protect archeological sites and traditional tribal access, reduce road density, provide for voluntary retirement of grazing permits, prevent new uranium mines." (Page iii)
Of particular interest to me was the reference to mountain lions in no less than four times, but also bears- black and grizzly, who are mentioned no less than three times! And here are some of the statements that are listed in this document. ""Black bear one inhabited the North Kaibab, as did grizzly bear and gray wolves."(Page 8) "A luck visitor might catch a glimpse of an occasional black bear roaming the forest once haunted by gray wolves, jaguars and the mighty grizzly bears." (Page 2)
Wolves are mentioned at least FOUR times in the document, What about this statement? "National monument designation can explicitly emphasize protection and and restoration of viable and ecological effective native wildlife populations by calling on both the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior to expeditiously authorize a scientifically credible analysis of the current and protected status of keystone species including the Kaibab squirrel, goshawk and mountain lions, as well as an analysis regarding recovery of extirpated wildlife such as bears and wolves." (Page 4)
I go on and on but you got to read this for yourself. I think what they want is very clear.
Does anyone else see the words, black bears, grizzly bears, jaguars, lions, and wolves as red flags?
Can there be any doubt as to what this is all about?
Get the proposal, read it, and send it to 100 of your friends.
These same folks are well aware of all the infighting that is still unfortunately going on among sportsmen over HB2072.
You think the timing is this is purely coincidental?
Right now we (sportsmen) seem to be a rag tag, disorganized group who are still hell bent on eating our own.
If we don't get together, and do it quick, and this goes through, we will lose forever another crown jewel of Arizona heritage and Arizona's wildlife!
Don Martin
Govt Liaison
Mohave Sportsman Club
Kingman, AZ
928-303-9481