I second Your Mountain for deep dives into a lot of western issues. Dave and Nephi have a ton of real world experience with policy and present it in a easy to understand way.
Utah People, thoughts on this?
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I second Your Mountain for deep dives into a lot of western issues. Dave and Nephi have a ton of real world experience with policy and present it in a easy to understand way.
Straight Arrow
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My letter to the editor:
Montana Political Choices
As an independent moderately conservative Montanan with no party affiliation, voting choices are confusing.
However, as a lifelong hunter-outdoorsman and advocate for wildlife and public lands, party choice today has become clearer.
Montana Republican party platform June 2024, page 13.
Federally Managed Public Lands
The Montana Republican Party supports relinquishing federally managed public lands to the states in order to secure statehood equality and provide for better management of public lands.
Montana has difficulty funding management of what lands are now under state control. To think that public lands such as USFS lands with huge budgets for management of campgrounds, trails, roads, fire mitigation and suppression, law enforcement ... and on and on, would be better managed by the state lacking the monies required is a foolish idea.
Montana cannot even afford to implement life saving traffic safety measures to mitigate the continuous frequent car, truck, and motorcycle crashes, many with human fatalities, which occur on Die-way 191 near Gallatin Gateway!
To propose taking on management of Custer Gallatin National Forest or any other vast tract of federal public land is absurd!
Montana Political Choices
As an independent moderately conservative Montanan with no party affiliation, voting choices are confusing.
However, as a lifelong hunter-outdoorsman and advocate for wildlife and public lands, party choice today has become clearer.
Montana Republican party platform June 2024, page 13.
Federally Managed Public Lands
The Montana Republican Party supports relinquishing federally managed public lands to the states in order to secure statehood equality and provide for better management of public lands.
Montana has difficulty funding management of what lands are now under state control. To think that public lands such as USFS lands with huge budgets for management of campgrounds, trails, roads, fire mitigation and suppression, law enforcement ... and on and on, would be better managed by the state lacking the monies required is a foolish idea.
Montana cannot even afford to implement life saving traffic safety measures to mitigate the continuous frequent car, truck, and motorcycle crashes, many with human fatalities, which occur on Die-way 191 near Gallatin Gateway!
To propose taking on management of Custer Gallatin National Forest or any other vast tract of federal public land is absurd!
ismith
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I’m not a fan. It’s no better than plastering solar panels and windmills all over Federal land.
That was interesting to hear the moderator bring up. Of course, Vance had no real answer for them other than there are a lot of federal lands that are just doing nothing or something to that effect.
They come from states that sold all their Federal lands.
No idea of what Our Public Lands mean to most folks.
Me, for sure.
Goes to show how out of touch most of these douche bags are with the average person.
Growing up in Indiana with very minimal public lands, and now living out west, our accessible public lands mean the world to me.
Pucky Freak
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JDV: “Well, what Donald Trump has said is we have a lot of federal lands that aren't being used for anything. They're not being used for national parks. They're not being used. And they could be places where we build a lot of housing. And I do think that we should be opening up building in this country. We have a lot of land that could be used. We have a lot of Americans that need homes.“
For reference, NPS manages just 12% of federal land…the rest could be open for “building”
For reference, NPS manages just 12% of federal land…the rest could be open for “building”
YZF-88
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When it comes to corruption for anything adjacent to wildlife resources, I don’t thing any state is in the same league as Utah (wealth tags, SFW, corrupt outfitter free passes, etc). No way I’d trust the state to “manage” public resources.
Straight Arrow
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Yep, just think of the vast open lands potential of the breaks around the CMR Refuge ... and the "good" roads for subdivision access are already in place!
davinski
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Boil it all down to the bone, and I always go back to this: the threshold for corruption is highest with the federal government when compared to state and local. What I mean is, after decades of consulting for and around .gov at local, state, and federal levels, I think the lower the level of govt, the easier it is to corrupt. That's a broad and pessimistic brush, and I know and love many people working for .gov at many levels who do great work, but I've seen it over and over. I am vocal in criticism of BLM and USFS, but the prospect of any state managing that same land terrifies me. I hope this fails in UT.
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