Utahns thank Sec. Salazar and BLM Dir. Abbey for keeping Utah wild

Heidi McIntosh (SUWA Associate Director), Bryson Garbett (President of Garbett Homes), and Eve Miller (founding member of Women Protecting Wilderness) speak at the Utah State Capitol on January 14, 2011.

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[bluemarkus]

יוטה = utah, look it up on google translater or morfix.com

[bluemarkus]

you will nver figure out what utah means in hebrew. it means sackcloth, jute ! its a plant !!

[bluemarkus]

איזה מילים נחמדים...

[pathfinderzz]

@mmcweanie Since you are from AZ why don't you stick to issues in your own state!

[pathfinderzz]

@mmcweanie In other words Creating wilderness where it has never existed. I have no problem with designation of wilderness where it exists to preserve it. In fact I am for it. I have a HUGE problem with creating wilderness. Also, when is enough enough! This has been inventoried and re-inventioried and now we're doing it again at the tax payers expense because we still haven't come up with the results that special interest groups want?

[pathfinderzz]

@mmcweanie I never said wilderness isn't one of the multiple uses of federal land and I believe in preserving wilderness where it exists. However, I have been in the areas they are trying to declare to be wilderness on existing roads in areas that never in my lifetime nor my parent's lifetime has it ever been roadless or as classified by legal description "wilderness". Now they are trying to change the definition so as to be able to close off what has never been wilderness.

[mmcwenie]

Pathfinderzz you had better acquaint yourself with the law and history. Wilderness IS one of the multiple uses of federal land. In my home state of Arizona we have had millions of acres of BLM wilderness areas for 20 years now and many of the groups that opposed their creation 20 years ago, particularly state Game and Fish and hunting groups, are supporters now because they have seen what unchecked ORV and other consumptive/ destructive activities do to wildlands and to wildlife.

[mmcwenie]

Pathfinderzz but you better acquaint yourself with the law and the history. Wilderness IS one of the multiple uses of federal land. In my home state of Arizona we have had millions of acres of BLM wilderness areas for 20 years now and many of the groups that opposed their creation 20 years ago, particularly state Game and Fish and hunting groups, are supporters now because they have seen what unchecked ORV and other consumptive/ destructive activities do to wildlands and to wildlife.

[pathfinderzz]

Why don't you be honest and admit you are creating, not preserving wilderness in Utah? BLM land is suppose to be multiple use land. Not locked away from the public. Shutting down land by creating wilderness will hurt the state's economy...but then you don't care because most of you aren't from Utah and really have no clue as to what you are talking about.

[Neichus]

@1caseyb1 "In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy."