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Show WASATCH SOUNDING MOUNTAIN TIMES BOARD Do you have MINING Osguthorpes Accosted Us, Too Dear editor, We read, with great interest, .your article about the dog shooting Osguthorpes, apprehending Still, they continue to use federal, state, and private land, control all the access and intimidate anyone who comes Lance LeValley on State Trust lands and turning him over to the places Summit criminal signs them County authorities for trespassing. We experi- enced a very similar around the same time, were accosted by situation, when we members of the Osguthorpe brood on LehmerCondas property, on our way to State land After one hostile member physically of confrontation, our detained party for the was sheriff, while the other escaped to sanctuary in Wolf Mountain (but turned himself in to the sheriff the next day). The cards were stacked against us in court as the “good old boys” took care of the “bad young boys” and taught us a lesson. The lesson was that the Red and White Pine Canyon are for snowmobiles and sheep only, no matter what the county property plat says This saga has been played out for years, although confrontations have been rare until lately. There are relatively few landowners who hoard their property and despise the healthy, nature lovers who respectfully pass through their land. These greedy and spiteful owners will not be happy until they accost, harass or shoot every last person with the temerity to go for a walk in their woods. We have been chased by three generations of resentment, each As near more to “their recreate, look more lawyers, only guns to keep owners three and recreationalists things: money. Maybe should organize and petition the state and the federal government to enforce our land access and property rights in these areas. Grazing permits should be reviewed, so the condition of the range and the desire for other, compatible uses can be considered. The county should review ous its licensing of the dangerand operations noxious snowmobile in this canyon, to the exclusion of everyone else. Why do they permit it to be run by hothead, gun-slinging adolescents? If we get enough in the private property from. Provisions can be made to Snowmobiles can peacefully co-exist with crosscountry skiers. After all, boarders along with Skinny Dogs.” Private property must be respected but it and non-territorial land uses makes them bitter and irascible. The city and the state solve their conflicts with these people by bestowing millions of dollars on the poor old timers for right-ofway and buffer zones. They now have the gall to call us the “Fat Cats.” The Osguthorpes can be shared. This is not Utah in the 1800s, its America in the 1990s. goes around, comes What around. Get with it old timers. Remember “The world is welcome here.” Well, at least some of the world is welcome somewhere Own approximately Suspension For The Suspended insure safe, compatible uses of al mountains. near here. The Specialized Rockhopper is trail-ready for riders from beginner to playfully aggressive off-roaders. 800 acres of the several thousand acres in the Red and White Pine area, most of which is near the ridge. Sincerely, Matt Lindon and Testride Chip Reynolds LETTERS Dear Salt Lake one Today Ogden City 1370 South 2100 East 3259 Washington Sunset 2317 North Main Send you comments and observations to our Letters to the Editor Department, Sounding Board, P.0. Box 1433, Park City, Utah, 84060. Letters must be signed and should not exceed two doubled-spaced typed pages, or 500 words. (801) 825-8632 Layton 110 North Main (801) 546-3159 * Wasatch Mountain Times ~. PAGE 3 Blvd., (801) 399-4981 (801) 583-1940 Reader, Sincerely, Editor at 649-9613 “Bingham Cyclery— ay important for us to share and get along, to avoid becoming the kind of place we all moved away our museum. leases to gain access to these canyons for everyone. As Park City approachinflection es another growth point, it becomes increasingly exist with skiers, bikers exist with hikers and “Fat Cats” can get currently new Call Marianne together, we could exercise our tights to access state land or even buy out the non-exclusive clauses than ignorant and unhappy For display at United Park City Mines “Fat Cats” the generation before. Their inability to assimilate to changing times more such as tools, equipment, clothing, photographs, or old film footage you might like to donate, loan or sell? for fences, and walls go up out. These land understand MEMORABILIA land.” newcomers Midvale SPECIALIZED. Store Hours (all locations): Monday-Friday 10-7 © Saturday 10-6 7 E. Ft. Union Blvd. (7200 S.) (801) 561-2453 Sandy 10510 South 1300 East (801) 571-4480 |