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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
Talked to a lot of people in Utah, Arizona and Nevada about government lands. I found no one proposing moving actual ownership of the public lands to the states who did not have business interests in mind
โDec-05-2017 03:20 PM
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Mortimer Brewster wrote:One thing that's misleading about this article is that the state of Utah will regain control over the area. From my maps, less than 10% of the land within the Bears Ear NM is state land. Most of the rest is either BLM or NFS land. The state won't be regaining control over that land. But protections will be much less.
Hereโs an interesting article on Bears Ears
What you need to know about the Bears Ears controversy
2oldman wrote:
Opportunities for drilling, mining and fracking. And rescinding anything Obama did. That's the CNN version anyway, and knowing Trump, that's what this is about.
โDec-05-2017 07:55 AM
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โDec-05-2017 05:54 AM
kerrlakeRoo wrote:
Just saw on Fox News site that Trump has rolled back some of the lands that were converted in past years to National Park lands.
Supposedly Utah folks were asking for these lands to be reopened, and there were comments about increasing access.
From you folks out there that have been using these areas, and seen the effects of new designations, is there a benefit to this change?
Will new opportunities present themselves?
โDec-05-2017 05:46 AM
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kerrlakeRoo wrote:
These areas were under BLM before, were they used often for recreational purposes?
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โDec-05-2017 03:29 AM
lc0338 wrote:pigman1 wrote:
64.9% of the state of Utah is Federal land. A bit much don't you think?
How much Utah is Public Land?
Yep, I agree. Both monuments were expanded by Obama and Clinton under the antiquities act, which was not intended for this purpose. Good to see the over_reach is being resolved.
Here is a quick version of the antiquities act -
President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act in 1906 largely to prevent looting of archaeological and Native American structures and objects. The purpose was to give the federal government an expeditious path to protect archeological sites.
archeological sites are not millions of acres
โDec-04-2017 09:11 PM
profdant139 wrote:Nearly all of Utah's uranium was produced in the region that includes those two national monuments. The longest active uranium mill in the state was at Monticello.
I have read that there are petrochemicals and other minerals, and I am pretty sure that I have boondocked in some of the affected areas.
โDec-04-2017 06:53 PM
pigman1 wrote:
64.9% of the state of Utah is Federal land. A bit much don't you think?
How much Utah is Public Land?