Forty two years ago this month, I testified at a Congressional Subcommittee hearing in Kanab, Utah – in favor of a new wilderness area. That didn’t make me very popular with the locals.
That same debate continues today
Westerners fear Obama preparing monuments land grab | The Salt Lake Tribune
You were Obamian before Obama!! 😎
He had probably just started smoking choom around that time.
Utah State Route 12 is one of America’s greatest drives.
So, you ever try to find where in the Constitution the Federal Government is granted the right or power to hold land for Conservation, grazing, leasing, or other non-enumerated reasons.
I forget how all that went down with TR. However, wilderness lands and such should be preserved privately. Government not only routinely mismanages the land politically at any time it can open it up to resource extraction by cronies for pennies on the dollar.
The issue preventing private preservation is that government effectively owns all land through property taxes. Only an exception to property taxes for wilderness preservation groups could make it affordable.
:You could fire 4 of 5 bureaucrats in washington, save loads on the national debt and prevent stupidity like the above. The US is suffering a slow death from thousands of bureacratic tics.
“Sahara Clubbers” ???
Did the NYT mean Sierra Clubbers?
“Those that beat feet in the desert” – Sahara Clubbers.
(Saw that the other day too and wondered …)
Obama’s philosophy denies the legitimacy of private property.