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Utah on verge of passing bill demanding Feds relinquish public land
Several other states with massive quantities of Federal land will be watching these efforts. It's long overdue.
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Go Utah Go!
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Worse. It was turned into a wildlife area. We went to our favorite slope site, a wonderful vast, grassy bowl with a nice sharp lip and great landing zone, like we always did. Up the road comes one of the few cars we've ever seen here in years of flying here.
This car has a light bar on top. We think well, don't see The Man out here very often. Armed ranger gets out and says that we are in violation of the regulations for the new reserve. We go through the usual deal...no engines, soaring only, we don't chase birds (true)...no luck. No wiggle room. This is now a reserve and you are lucky I don't fine each of you on the spot. If I see you here again, ever, I will. |
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Yeah, of course, but out west, the BLM is just sitting on an unimaginable amount of land. That even if only 5% was allowed to be utilized, would be a boon to our GDP.
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At times like this, knowing your congresscritter can help out. http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/...e.cfm?state=WA |
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Well, some of it is being utilized. A friend of my dad leases like 40,000 acres in Montana for cattle and oil. It's dirt cheap compared to what the private lease would likely go for. That's not to say that I'm opposed to reverting some government land to private ownership, though. The process has to be controlled. States don't always have the best interests at heart, just like the feds, they can be corrupted, and give sweatheart deals to their friends. That's less likely to happen at the federal level.
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We checked immediately upon our return and he was correct.
Turning harmless and innocuous things into a federal case involving any contact with a congresscritter is precisely why I oppose State involvment in so many things. I shouldn't need to contact anyone to fly a glider on a grassy hill on a public road in the middle of nowhere where, until that ranger, the number of cars we'd ever seen there could be counted on the fingers of one hand. That executive pen stroke turned a non issue into an illegal one. The soccer nutz are the scourge of any urban flyers. If every available scrap of grassy area is not turned over to soccer or parking for it, well obviously you're against the kids. We fought this for years in King County where it was insane...there were literally soccer fields all over the place all accross the county, and how many public glider parks? One. But of course if you wanted to retain a single couple acres to fly planes with your friends and your kids while they had fields everywhere, why then you were the bad guy! |
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Imagine where the model aircraft hobby would be today without the AMA. |
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