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Show Letters from our readers ... Dear Sam, In Mr. S. Gene Day's statement, ' 'just asking that it be done as your citizens want it done." Boy, that is really a statement for the Bureau of Land Management to make. Why didn't they ask for any suggestions from the citizens on the way they proceeded to protect Big Bend from the CITIZENS? From a citizen that drives the River Road often I think that Big Bend should have been protected protect-ed from the BLM. If they would concern themselves more about the feelings of the people who really own the public lands, instead of referring to it as the BLM land, we would all be better off. If they think that shutting off Big Bend is going to solve their problem, it is not. Those people are going to camp someplace. So they should have let them have Big Bend and fixed it up with gravel and finish developing develop-ing a campground there instead of chasing them somewhere else along the river to wear out some other place. I am with D.L. Taylor. Maybe the Colorado River could be used for the harbor. I wonder what could be used instead of tea? Any suggestions? Concerned, Glenna White Dear Sam, We would like to add our collective voices to the growing dissatisfaction with Bureacracies who have little or no regard for the people whom they are supposed to serve. After having worked with Mr. D. L. Taylor for four years while he was serving as County Commissioner, and knowing know-ing the concern he feels for our part of the state and realizing that he is an informed aware person who studies a situation thoroughly before he makes such statements, we would like to go on record as backing his views wholeheartedly. We realize with the growing population that some restrictions are necessary, but "power plays to show who is boss?" Come on now! Restrictive measures have never been too popular with us dumb country folk-and when the BLM says "our land" they mean that literally. That should raise the hackles a bit, because we always understood it to mean every citizen of America and most especially people who were raised, worked and lived here long before it was popular to do so. Bobbie Domenick, John E. Keogh, D. Loveridge, Harvey Merrell, Leo Burr, A. Dan Holyoak, Clyde Goudelock, Kenneth Beach. |