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Show Prtfe land booring ebdiieo . 'So srgqIi eat UJS. Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah) has requestedCon-gressional requestedCon-gressional hearings in several western states this summer to examine the rising friction between public pub-lic lands users and the federal fed-eral bureaucracy. "Public lands users must be given an opportunity to speak out on their problems in dealing with growing federal fed-eral control," he said. "The federal agencies' unresponsiveness unrespon-siveness to these individuals has created a potentially explosive ex-plosive situation." is an Increasing conflict between be-tween Utahns and federal agencies. Instead of easing eas-ing this tension, the bureaucracy bureau-cracy has responded with more restrictions and regulations. regu-lations. The individual public pub-lic land user must be given a chance to voice his views directly " to Congress, and hearings must be held promptly." "Events such as theSage-brush theSage-brush Rebellion in Nevada will continue to occur, as" long as the federal agencies mismanage our natural resources re-sources and arbitrarily dictate dic-tate their use," Garn said. The combination of stricter stric-ter grazing regulations, proposed pro-posed increases in wilderness, wilder-ness, and drastic cutbacks in AUM's has created a nightmare for the public land user. The productive sector which depends greatly on public land is finding it mo re and more difficult to contend with the regulatory monster now controlling public lands. Many Utahns feel they must unite to fight increaslngfed-eral increaslngfed-eral control." Garn specifically referred to a lawsuit brought by the Utah Cattlemen's Association Associ-ation against the BLM in protests of cutbacks in grazing rights in Southern Utah. - Garn said direct Congressional Congres-sional involvement in the JOrm of hearings at the scene of public lands disputes is necessary to acquire the fullest ful-lest range of Information. "The wide variety of issues includes grazing, coal leasing, leas-ing, recreation and other uses, but the problems differ dif-fer from state to state. The best solution would be several hearings in different dif-ferent states." In a letter to Senate Interior In-terior Appropriations Subcommittee Sub-committee Chairman Robert Byrd , Garn asked that special hearings be held in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho, with later hearings hear-ings scheduled in Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. "No single issue is as volatile or widespread in the west as public lands use. With 66 of Utah's lands under federal control, there |
