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Show commitments of resources are made before the impacts of the decision are fully analyzed. The public is left with roads and drill rigs in wilderness areas, while the companies laugh their way to the bank. For years, SUWA has urged the BLM, through protests and appeals, not to issue leases in wilderness lands. signing a route, providing a convenient space to unload ORVs, and clearing any route obstructions will invite an explosion in use levels to a once sleepy trail. SUWA will appeal this decision (even though the District Ranger says its not appealable). You can write to District Ranger, glenn Casamassa, Monticello Ranger District, P.O. Box 386, Moab, Utah The logic of the argument is simple: it is foolish to issue a lease that will inevitably result in conflict with wilderness, archeological, and other spectacular resources, when you have complete Plenty of our public lands in Utah have already been devastated development. Keep out of the dwindling wilderness that remains. wildlife habitat, discretion not to. by oil and gas Not only is this 84532. Tell him to learn the Chief’s Dance and to start preventing ORVs from tearing up roadless lands owned by all Americans (not just a few locals). WHERE IS ELMER FUDD WHEN YOU NEED HIM? It’s Easter time in Moab, which means that Jeeps and other ORVs will multiply like lease sale, and SUWA only protested 9 that were within proposed wilderness units. So far, rabbits on viagra across the greater Moab landscape. Like Easter eggs, they will be painted the responses to these protests have been consistent with the names of the State Directors obnoxiously obtrusive colors. Unlike Easter eggs, they will be easy to find ...if not by the Bill "Lame" Lamb, former State Director, denied the protests and offered the leases, while ~ noisy metallic contrast to the otherwise peaceful slickrock domes and whispering washes, the new State Director, Sally "Wise" Wisely, has followed logic and suspended the offering then by the tracks created with their gnarled tire-feet and periodic "droppings" of oil and of the protested parcels. : brake fluid. Thank her for properly using her discretion to protect remaining wilderness lands, and Although the official Jeep Safari event and participants may be of the tame, cute and urge her to follow through with this decision when considering the merits of SUWA’s fuzzy variety, the event inevitably draws the unofficial and ferocious Monty Python variety protests. Write to: Sally Wisely, BLM, Utah State Office, P.O, Box 45155, Salt Lake City, (possibly alien) out of their holes, that arrive as king varmints hopping unabated off Utah 84145-0155. designated trails to climb and claim every mound and to chew-up any vegetation in their path. Unfortunately, breeding has occurred. These insidious, militant foes have copulated their way into the official Jeep Safari paper, and plan to host propaganda events designed to coerce the fuzzy variety into adopting their reckless platform and behavior. argument logical, it is reasonable--for example, 92 parcels were offered in the February 2000 Evidence is in the headline, "Zero In On Moab For 2000," and inaccurate articles found inside. Unofficial T-shirts for the event are screened with "Tread Lightly Over Spandex Speed Bumps,” and “Road Kill" depicting a manic jeeper running down a mountain biker (and a fuzzy rabbit...disclosing their true mission). It’s ironic that responsible jeepers and the Moab Chamber of Commerce would invite this mixing and the eventual demise of themselves. A LITTLE "LIGHT" WHINING Why is it that people feel compelled to pollute the night sky with star-blinding lights? Its bad enough to view the multicolored Moab city lights like Fruit-Loop stained milk on the bottom of your cereal bowl, but now they are creeping almost full circle around the rim. Beginning clockwise at Mathesson Wetlands, we've got commercial cracks night-lighting trams, flood-lighting the Colorado River corridor, and lighting-up yet another tram and snack ‘bar. Heading into Spanish Valley, we now have residents burning the flame in sprawling condo developments, and a single home that shines flood lights on the cliffs of Johnson’s Up On Top so that it looks like a drive-in movie screen. wilderness. DISTRICT FOREST RANGER CAN’T DANCE WITH THE CHIEF You may recall the blurb "The Abajos are under Attack" from the October/November Yes, we need more 000g issue of the Zephyr. Since then, lawless ORVers ripped through 16 miles of oak, maple, box elder, ponderosa, and manzanita in an inventoried roadless area adjacent to Dark Canyon Wilderness. The trail, called White Rim (not to be confused with the one in Canyonlands NP), is depicted on the travel map, but was never used by ORVs and had completely revegetated into a difficult to follow hiking trail. In fact, Forest Service staff could not even trees-and checking four men chairman shrubs and six springs into:"The Wilderness," another roadless area. While on this destruction, SUWA and Friends of the Abajos sighted and photographed illegally pioneering travel within an area closed to motorized vehicles. The of the ORV committee of the Southern Utah Land Users (SULU) was one of the four who eventually surrendered and paid the token $100.00 fine. Ironically, the local Forest Service continues to invite SULU’s destructive actions. It must be noted that the District Ranger temporarily closed the route through "The Wilderness." However, rather than closing both of these routes to protect important OPEN YEAR ROUND Gary & Claire Dorgan Cy J locate certain access points. They also constructed ten miles of trail through decades-old . PO Box 310307 Mexican Hat. UT 84531 of the 970-749-164 Ods BED-(-BREAKFAST resource values and to prevent against further damage, the District Ranger is not only leaving the White Rim route open, but has decided to maintain the trail, install a sign and construct a parking area...all of this without a public process in violation of environmental laws and National Forest policy. 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