sagebrush
Active member
Unfortunately, should Propostion 120 pass, it will probably not stand the test of federal court.
Ben - You are sadly misinformed. This year, we have a $420 million surplus in our budget that is being reserved for future economic down turns. The 14 day camping restriction is also in place on BLM and nation forest lands as well in our state. Reason being, each winter we are inundated by snowbirds parking their RV's and trailers for months at a time. The impact on some of the more fragile environments can be devastating when you have thousands, yes thousands, of people camping, burning firewood and riding OHV's between camps, in small areas. The desert areas once hit by a flock of snowbirds will never recover. In Quartzsite, we get nearly one million people wintering each year in RV's and trailers. A million! The federal government's answer to the border problem is to post it as unsafe and warning residents to keep out of BLM land because it's too dangerous. Our state government and ranchers have an excellent working relationship. Much of our state lands are leased to ranchers for grazing and still have public access as long as you have written permission. That written permission is a valid hunting license. One of the primary reasons for Prop 120 is the push for the Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument by the Center for Biological Diversity which they plan on using as a wolf and grizzly bear sanctuary. The GCWNM proposal is opposed by the G&F Commission and the state legislature but the decision will be made in Washington DC without regard to local consideration. The national monument will no longer have mining, grazing or ranching which has been in place since before AZ became a state. We are tired of people from outside of the state telling what is best for us and ramming their regulations down our throats over our unified protests. This is not a land grab, au contraire, it is a last stand against an overbearing federal government that regulates based on input from people outside of the state with total disregard for local impact.
Ben - You are sadly misinformed. This year, we have a $420 million surplus in our budget that is being reserved for future economic down turns. The 14 day camping restriction is also in place on BLM and nation forest lands as well in our state. Reason being, each winter we are inundated by snowbirds parking their RV's and trailers for months at a time. The impact on some of the more fragile environments can be devastating when you have thousands, yes thousands, of people camping, burning firewood and riding OHV's between camps, in small areas. The desert areas once hit by a flock of snowbirds will never recover. In Quartzsite, we get nearly one million people wintering each year in RV's and trailers. A million! The federal government's answer to the border problem is to post it as unsafe and warning residents to keep out of BLM land because it's too dangerous. Our state government and ranchers have an excellent working relationship. Much of our state lands are leased to ranchers for grazing and still have public access as long as you have written permission. That written permission is a valid hunting license. One of the primary reasons for Prop 120 is the push for the Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument by the Center for Biological Diversity which they plan on using as a wolf and grizzly bear sanctuary. The GCWNM proposal is opposed by the G&F Commission and the state legislature but the decision will be made in Washington DC without regard to local consideration. The national monument will no longer have mining, grazing or ranching which has been in place since before AZ became a state. We are tired of people from outside of the state telling what is best for us and ramming their regulations down our throats over our unified protests. This is not a land grab, au contraire, it is a last stand against an overbearing federal government that regulates based on input from people outside of the state with total disregard for local impact.
