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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 1899 Community How Kane County residents can fight the Monument Plan that the Secretary of under the authority of revised Interior coordinate inventory, statutes 2477. Kane County, planning and management ac- Utah General Plan, pg. 10. Traditional and cultural activities with state and local governments. NEPA also requires tivities referred to in the Genthat the Monument Plan con- eral Plan such as: woodcutting, sider impacts on the environ- hunting, rock hounding, ment and on the preservation of sightseeing, photography, hikthe culture, heritage and cus- ing access, bicycling, handicess and By PFUSA Roads Committee The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM) plan violates federal statutory law, case law and congressional mandate. The plan is not in the best interests of Kane County or its citizens, and the Monument Planning Team has demonstrated an arrogant dis- tom of local government. regard for our local rights and . FLPMA protects existing needs during the Monument leases, permits, patents, and y (RS2477 access). planning process. The Department of Interior and the Bureau FLPMA states all actions by of Land Management (BLM) will the Secretary concerned under not police their own actions, but this act shall be subject to valid Congress and our court system existing rights. section 701(h). has authority over Secretary Yet the Monument Plan fails to Babbitt, and the Monument protect or recognize any RS2477 rights-of-waFLPMA allows Planning Team. Residents-o- f Kane County Congress to pass a resoluright-of-wa- y. need to write members of Con- tion terminating any action gress (Utah, Arizona, etc.), ask- by Secretary Babbitt (the ing that Congress examine the Monument Plan) that vioGSENM Plan for compliance lates any principles or maj or with the Presidential Proclama- uses under FLPMA. The Kane County General tion, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), Plan recognizes the congres- sional mandate that federal plans be consistent with local plans within the constraints of the law. The Kane County General Plan is a guide in land use tion package that Confess re- decision making and aims at a buked and denied funding for in sustainable, broad based 1994. We need to ask Congress economy including traditional to apply those same controls to and new economic activities Secretary B abbitt regarding the while protecting scenic and soGSENM Plan. cial qualities. The county plan Points to consider in your let- provides for a functional transters are the Presidential portation system which emphaProclamations pledge to pro- sizes the circulation of residents tect valid existing rights, per- and visitors between communimits, leases and grazing levels ties, as well as to the scenic wonas well as the Secretary of ders found in the country, and Interiors requirement to follow is founded upon the ability of the county to utilize rights of applicable legal authorities. FLPMA requires a lawful pro way on public lands asserted the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), case law and congressional mandate. The Monument Plan is a rewritten version of the restrictive regula- capped access, 4x4, motorcycle, ATV, snowmobile, hang gliding, guide and outfitting, grazing, ranching, etc. are severely curtailed or eliminated in the Monument Plan. The Monument Plan is not consistent with our county plan regarding economic development, transportation, culture, heritage and custom. The Monument Plan creates de facto Wilderness with- out congressional approval as required by law. Primitive Zones (65 ofMonument area) are non-motorize- non-mechaniz- ed bicycles) areas that match d, (no Wil- derness restrictions except for administrative access on roads under the control of BLM. Over 35 of Kane County will be accessible only by foot or horseback in the Monument alone. Additional WSA inventories outside the Monument will also impact Kane County in the near future. Kane County and southern Utah have already contributed National Parks, National Forests, Wilderness and Wilderness Study Areas, National Recreational Areas, State Parks, etc. We think Kane County needs more than 5 multiple use land status to remain viable economically and culturally. Case Law holds that Secretary Babbitt cannot take graz- - Fataflouas Biasaimess in g rights by regulation. We contend that he cannot take these rights through the Monument Plan either. Case law has consistently supported RS2477 rights-of-waSecretary Babbitt cannot take access rights away with the Monument Plan. Future legal action to protect existing rights by our County Commission and private citizens or groups should be fully supported by Kane County residents because we cannot lose our existing rights through an unlawful taking by a branch ofour own Federal Government. Residents who responded during the scoping phase are listed by name or group in chapter five of the Proposed Management Plan dated July 1999. Those listed need to file a protest as outlined in the Plan (available at BLM office) before the y protest period ends on August y. provide to humans and their tools of destruction. Lets face it, the vast majority of humans do not know how to behave in natural environments. Fearful of experiencing nature on its own terms, they bringalong their chainsaws, ATVs, guns, dogs and They harass virtually every creature they meet, and leave their mark on every place they visit. The more inaccessible we can keep our remaining wild areas to these cretins, the safer and healthier these areas will be. Those humans who respect the land are willing to walk long distances. If this is an elitist attitude, so be it; the health ofthe ghetto-blaster- s. land demands restrictions on human access and behavior. JP magazine, October 1977, pg. 30-da- 26. Send a copy of your Monument protest letter to con- gressional members with a cover letter requesting congressional action on the Plan. The BLM says you cannot protest if you didnt comment in writing during scoping. Thats OK! Its more important that you write a letter or a postcard to advise congressional members of your protest and request congressional action on the Monument Plan. Also write Governor Michael Leavitt and ask him to address your views during y the Governors review Monument the period regarding 60-da- Plan. The following quotation by Reed Noss, PhD Oregon State University, Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads Advisory Board member, in their Handbook , sums up the opposition and their attitudes towards the American public as follows: The most insidious of all effects of roads is the access they Road-Rippe- rs . 64,67. Let our letters demonstrate that we are not cretins, but that we are rural residents that need access to our country for economic, traditional and cultural subsistence. 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