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Show happened to the Escalante region if the BLM uses the monument as an excuse to improve roads and promote the area for tourism and refuses to make tough derUinny on grazing, wilderness and road closures. includes Hancock Peak roadless area, east of Cedar Breaks National Monument. The maps in the DEIS that show proposed fogging and road building do not mention or show roadless area boundaries. A mere oversight by the USP5? Yeah, right. The Dixie has never been keen on notifying the public that roadless areas are Inrhidpd in their projects, even though SUWA has raised this concern numerous times. It's not too late to obtain a copy of the SSERP DEIS (don't wait for the movie) let the Dixie know that fogging and road building in the Hancock Peak roadless area is unacceptable management of this wonderful area. Your comments let the Dixie know that their actions and decisions are being monitored by folks who actually care about forest health, rather than the amount of board feet of lumber that can be hauled out snd comments to Hugh Thompson, Supervisor, Dixie National Forest, 82 North 100 East; Cedar Kill Wildlife in the Monument BLM is continuing to allow the federal agency Animal Damage Control (we knoW they've changed their name for PJL reasons but we BLM Says refuse to gp along), to kill wildlife in the national monument to protect domestic livestock. The agency at this time is refusing to consider in the monument plan whether ADC should be stopped from killing in the future. After a decade of involvement with SUWA, it's time for me to leave the organization. Stiles allowed me to rant in the Zephyr for most of the past ten years, and defended me numerous times when my bits upset this corporation or that agency. The Zephyr has been the most valuable information source about southern Utah public land for a long time, and I'm glad for the chance to be a small part of the paper. Thanks Jim. Adios: Qty,UT 84720. Desert The House RangeWarm Springs BLM recently issued a decision to allow the immediate installation of 26 small game water catchments, or guzzlers, in the West Desert Nineteen of these guzzlers are located within the Cricket Mountains and Red Tops, newly inventoried potential wilderness units. In defiance of the y regulatory appeal period, the BLM Area Manager put the decision in foil force and effect on the day it was issued. Backhoes were out digging before any dust could settle on the decision. This decision sucks. First, the BLM on its decision to use hand tools for the installation. In direct contradiction of its original proposal (which tnehidad no guzzlers' heavy equipment), the BLM decided to rev up the backhoes to install the tanks. Similar guzzlers had been installed using only hand tools, confirming that the use of backhoes was entirely unnecessary. Secondly, the BLM's environmental assessment (EA) only considered the effects of installing a single guzzler, rather than putting 26 of them in potential wilderness areas. And finally, tlie BLM inexplicably allowed the guzzlers to be installed prior to the expiration of the public's regulatory appeal deadline. We'll be watching future project proposals from the House RangeWarm Springs BLM and insist that, at a minimum, federal laws be followed. BLM Backhoes The West 30-da- flip-flopp- ed Cedar City 'BLM Proposes Same Tiling in HR 1500 Area: It must be the season of the guzzler in the West Desert The Cedar City BLM office is proposing to install two of them in the Wah Wah Mountains, in an HR 1500 area. Cedar City BLM has already installed 14 of these things this summer, but had deferred action on these two, as the sites were controversial Probably emboldened by the House RangeWarm Springs BLM stealth attack, Cedar City Is forging ahead with these final two. The heretofore arid West Desert is becoming littered with water tanks to serve, chukar partridge. It's not too late to stop these last two guzzlers. primarily, the You can request that the BLM kxate these guzzlers outside of HR 1500 areas by writing BLM, 176 East D.L Sargent Drive, Cedar City, UT 84720 non-nati- Ote for Susanne Mayberry Grand County Council ve Chaining and Fire Rehabilitation: It's also the wildfire season in the West Desert, and with wildfires, can chaining be far behind? Answer not where BLM lands in Utah are concerned! The Cedar City BLM has issued several decisions in response to recent wildfires. The decisions generally include chaining as one of the rehab actions, such as the Miners ville Fire Rehab Plan that calls for chaining 2600 acres, and the Table Grounds Fire Rehab Plan calls for chaining approximately 230 acres. Let BLM State Director Bill Lamb know that the BLM should be employing less lethal and invasive methods in its quest to rehabilitate burned public lands. BLM - Utah State Office, PO Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT 84145-015BLM 5. Logging in Roadless Area Averted: The Escalante Ranger District has agreed to stay out of the Hog Ranch roadless area, near Box Death Hollow Wilderness Area that was previously slated to be fogged as part of a "salvage project SUWA's appeal of the initial decision was dismissed. However, the District Ranger reconsidered his decision, in light of the roadless area concerns. Thanks to everyone who sent letters to the Dixie National Forest andor the Escalante Ranger District! You can let District Ranger Kevin Schulkoski know that you appreciate his efforts 755 West Main, Escalante, UT 84726 - Hancock Peak Roadless Area Under the Gun (or chainsaw): The Hog Ranch rescue is the good news. The bad news is that there are more forest projects on the horizon that propose developments (logging roads) in other roadless areas in the Dixie. One of the most, threatening proposals is the South Spruce Ecosystem Rehabilitation Project (SSERP), which you need to supply water beyond the reach of power lines, then solar power can solve the problem. Well and surface pumps: 500 to 30,000 gallons a day. Let us help you determine the optimum system to meet your needs. Complete do it yourself kits available. If CALL SUPERIOR Robert Soldat HC 64 Box 2510 Castle Valley, UT 84532 8 (435) 259-763- ENERGY, SOLAR PUMPING EXPERIENCE SINCE 1987. UEHTT s. |
