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Mochisme
05-13-2009, 05:51 PM
Closures in the Moab Area:
(sorry if this has already been addressed here but I can't can not find a thread on it)

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s799/text


S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 will close the doors on Utah recreat



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Todd Ockert
E-mail: landuse@ufwda.org
Tulare, Ca. 11 May 2009

S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 will close the doors on Utah recreation!

The wilderness bills keep rolling along in Washington DC. They are after 9.5 million acres in Utah and the Red Rock area this time. The Omnibus bill was not enough, so now they want to surround Moab Utah with Wilderness!
Here are the areas they are attempting to make into wilderness in this bill.

Great Basin wilderness area – 2,239,700 acres
Zion and Mojave desert Wilderness area – 375,500 acres
Grand Staircase-Escalante Wilderness area – 1,729,540 acres
Moab-LA Sal Canyons Wilderness area – 296,800 acres
Henry Mountains Wilderness area – 434,300 acres
Glen Canyon Wilderness area – 902,000 acres
San Juan-Anasazi Wilderness area – 531,300 acres
Canyonlands Basin Wilderness area – 725,700 acres
San Rafael Swell Wilderness area – 1,106,900 acres
Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin Wilderness area – 1,168,800 acres

This bill was introduced by Sen Durbin of Illinois.
Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 4/2/2009
Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 4/2/2009
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 4/2/2009
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Udall, Mark [CO] - 5/6/2009
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 4/2/2009

Please take the time to write to your elected representatives, and tell them enough is enough! Most of these lands do not meet the original intent of the Wilderness Act of 1964 “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
If we want to have anyplace left in Utah to recreate, we need to stop this land grab again NOW!


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Want to write your Senator or all of the below?

Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA]
http://boxer.senate.gov/
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3553
(202) 224-0454 fax
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA]
http://cantwell.senate.gov/
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3441
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD]
http://cardin.senate.gov/
09 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-4524
Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI]
http://feingold.senate.gov/
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
(202) 224-5323

Sen Harkin, Tom [IA]
http://harkin.senate.gov/
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3254 Phone
(202) 224-9369 Fax

Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA]
http://kennedy.senate.gov/
317 Russell Senate Building
Washington D.C. 20510
p (202) 224-4543
f (202) 224-2417

Sen Kerry, John F. [MA]
http://kerry.senate.gov/
218 Russell Bldg.
Second Floor
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2742

Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ]
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/
Hart Senate Office Building
Suite 324
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3224
Fax (202) 228-4054

Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT]
http://leahy.senate.gov/
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senatge
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4242
Fax (202) 224-3479

Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT]
http://lieberman.senate.gov/
706 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041 Voice
(202) 224-9750 Fax

Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ]
http://menendez.senate.gov/
528 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
202.224.4744
202.228.2197 fax

Sen Reed, Jack [RI]
http://reed.senate.gov/
The Honorable Jack Reed
1000 Chapel View Boulevard, Suite 290
Cranston, RI 02920
Call: (401) 943-3100
Fax: (401) 464-6837

Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT]
http://sanders.senate.gov/
332 Dirksen Building
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C., 20510
Phone - 202-224-5141
Fax - 202-228-0776

Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI]
http://stabenow.senate.gov/
133 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4822

Sen Udall, Mark [CO]
http://markudall.senate.gov/
Senate Hart Office Building
SH-317
Washington, D.C. 20510
(877-768-3255)
P: 202-224-5941
F: 202-224-6471

Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI]
http://whitehouse.senate.gov/
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 502
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-2921 phone
202-228-6362 fax

ZJ TINS
05-13-2009, 10:59 PM
Harkin, done.

Z
05-13-2009, 11:25 PM
For the benefit of those that don't already know this (and for use in your letters) - the eco-weenies don't actually care that much about mechanized access to public lands (which actually bars all non-foot traffic including bicycles as well as technical climbing gear). What the eco-weenies are really after is to make as much public land off limits to energy extraction. The eco-weenies think that if we make it impossible to extract energy in the US, then we'll be forced to create alternative energy sources. Of course the way it really works out is that we can't extract cheap energy here in the US and its cheaper and easier (and the status quo) to buy our energy from the world oil market than to produce it via alternative means.

So, this bill is much more about a stealth energy policy than anti-recreational access. A vote for this bill is a vote for $5/gallon gasoline (and continued funding of Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia).

(I actually am all for alternative energy, but we need to have the means of production and distribution in place before we start taking away our current energy sources.)

Oh, and sending comms to Udall of Colorado is a lost cause. The first thing he did when he got in office, when the economy was tanking, was to co-sponsor a bill to add wilderness protection to parts of Rocky Mountain National Park (I'm thinking there are more pressing problems than protecting land that's already protected).

Technohead
05-14-2009, 07:03 AM
The "Honorable (wink, wink) Jack Reed" of RI, Done.

Z's analysis is largely spot-on. There is however a significant number of eco-weenies who want land closed to motorized access.

I'll take this opportunity to urge everyone to become involved with a local Jeep/4WD club. And make sure your club affiliates with regional/national associations such as UFWDA. We have the numbers needed to influence policy if everybody gets involved.