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Show around criss-crossed through wilderness lands in the Cedar Mesa area, spinning donuts Wilderness Study Area signs. This gutless behavior is like kicking a puppyof And the antics of their leaders are no better. Representative Chris Cannon, sponsor drove current legislation designed to promote ORV abuse in the San Rafael Swell, illegally county commissioners into a closed area last summer, playing pied piper to a precession of (SULU), and People for the USA types. Ranking members of the Southern Utah Land Users routes along with the group’s president, have been caught and fined for constructing illegal on both BLM and Forest Service managed lands. Forest Although the local BLM office is boosting enforcement in the area, BLM and Service still work with SULU and other ORV groups to keep areas open, allowing damage to continue in places like Arch Canyon and within roadless tracts in the Abajo Mountains. Dinner nightly at 5:30 THE JOHN McCAIN ENDORSEMENT This is the best restaurant in Utah. This is the best restaurant in Utah. This is the best restaurant in Utah. routes), additional trails (High Desert, Piute, Ruin Canyon trail, other proposed “loop” toothless dropped wilderness units (Arch Canyon, Behind the Rocks, etc), delayed or (Indian Creek, the Swell, Comb Wash, Moquith Mountain), support for bad The difference HERE is: He means it. legislation (Cannon’s H.R. 3605), and general neglect to enforce the law. by You can help pressure the agency to protect these treasured landscapesBLM. the photographing violating vehicles, reporting plate numbers, and writing letters to SLC, UT 84145. Send letters to Sally Wisely, State Director, BLM, P.O. Box 45155, CE 92 E. CENTER STREET 435.259-4295 state liquor license Jeep Jamboree), It’s time for BLM to stop rewarding these radicals with permits (Jeep Safari, closures 3 Call for reservations (Don't disagree with John.) Please contact SUWA with any information (435)259-5440. PICKETT FORK A GRASSLAND? Wildlife Using the misapprehended mantra of "biodiversity," the Utah Division of are Resources and a local group that call themselves the Elk Ridge Steering Committee located currently developing a proposal to wipe out two sections of pinyon/juniper forest to rant continue folks Committee Steering and personnel agency Certain Mesa. Cedar on future about the horrors of p/j, the need to kill the existing trees and to prevent strategy “encroachment.” In an attempt to persuade the general public that their genocide decadent," is rational, the project proponents, however, argue that the p/j forest is "old and species can and that it must be leveled so that grasses can grow, and "target" or "preferred" occupy the area. of the What they don’t mention is that the existing p/j forest is the natural ecosystem Cedar Mesa area (hence the name), and that it supports an entire food cycle of species. The garden proponents of "biodiversity goais,” on the other hand, are limited to creating a grass wreck the homes of for deer and elk—and they are willing to kill thousands of trees, sites, and thousands of animals, risk destruction of timeless (and countless) archeological tarnish the unique, expansive view of p/j forest on Cedar Mesa, broken only by the riparian corridors of Pickett Fork, Fish Creek and other canyons and drainages. ‘ Originally, project proponents wanted to perform this p/j massacre on both BLM and state lands. The BLM declined to participate, noting that such action would run counter to wilderness. So the proponents wrote-off the BLM and instead are focusing the chainsaw the carnage and helicopter fire raid on two state land sections—one located within, and and other adjacent to the Fish and Owl Creek Wilderness Study Area. The School the for Institutional Trust Lands Administration have the legal duty to manage these lands benefit of the schoolchildren. _ Typically, these SITLA lands are traded out of protected areas for lands more valuable if any, to the children. Rumors are rampant that John McCain may bolt from the Center Cafe’ ad and Certainly, it is not prudent to forego this future option for nominal, run berserk throughout The Zephyr. is like grazing fees. SITLA should recognize that preserving wilderness character purchasing a mutual fund for school children. of concerns the ignored only not Committee Steering the It should also be noted that The Committee was meant to be a agency personnel, but those of its own members. for a project to go "consensus" effort, meaning that all participants must agree in order did, however, simply forward, and not all the members agreed with this plan. Those that more atrocious actions. steamrolled those that objected, and threatened to proceed with ever valuable to all Help squelch this proposal to destroy wilderness lands that are children, by writing to inhabitants of Cedar Mesa...including future generations of school John Andrews, SITLA, "ACCESS"... TO L.A. (Deep thoughts in ’90’s lexicon). oil enriched exhaust The grinding of engines, horns blasting, tires screeching, a cloud of obscenities, the stench rising from an endless procession of vehicles, agitated drivers yelling in driver barks, "God, I feel like I’m of motor fluids and overworked brakes...a disgruntled L.A.!" Ironically, however, the driver was on public lands. blood raising and Why would someone choose to leave the congested city for a weekend in a town life-threatening drive down highway 191, only to spend a frustrating people in super charged adrenaline of hordes with brims redrock its over literally bubbling was asking himself that charged trucks? Whether or not he was conscious of it, this driver You know, seeing John McCain go nuts in an ad just above my head is very, question. I easily pass as I hike up Poison Spider Mesa, and peer into the windows of vehicles passengers with Sweaty they creep laboriously over rock. I see many depressing things. heads bobbing to the beat heat-twisted faces, drivers intently focused on the bumper ahead, in direct and relentless of some unlikely jam, babies breathing fumes strapped to carseats and unfulfilled. Like sun--one thing for certain-they all appeared anxious, uncomfortable, they were there without choice. The ultimate metaphor for lost sheep. and adventures it I think about wilderness and the choices it brings, the journeys as a thought, a concept. provides even without moving from one place--at times just escape from our Assuring "access" to everyone to quiet places...an absolutely necessary unobstructed by the daily lives, for private contemplation. For solitude. For vast views sorry that he wasted feel I and driver, disgruntled the about think I technocracy. toys of have gained if he had his time, that he sabotaged his choices. How much more he would parked even crawled his vehicle at the lot, and then walked, rolled, or SUMMER... The wind blows all your equipment away and you need us to replace all the stuff that ended up in Colorado. The wind stops and the mosquitoes come out and you need us for all the ointments and the few paces River slip through the around the corner and across the road, to watch the lazy Colorado in the wilderness quite canyons...maybe even take a nap and dream of the challengesof understanding of full downstream, finally to awake in a state of calmness with a head what "access" really means...access to one’s self. For more about SUWA check their web site: OL wwsuwnorg at £ ~ibEINIS ore repellants you require to keep from going crazy. rolinge Pas on rnaleqaon ee eon |