Ithaca 37
New member
http://www.owyheeinitiative.org/
Here's the rest of the story:
"We believe the conservationists participating in the OI are engaging in the wrong strategy at the worst possible time. Public land decisions in Congress are currently controlled by anti-federal land ideologues who believe that land is there to be used, not protected. Mike Crapo is from their camp. His "clients" are the cattlemen, the off-road vehicle users, and resource extractors, with only the slightest nod toward environmental concerns required. By participating in the OI, conservationists are letting Crapo and the cattlemen rule the Owyhees, while giving them the green stamp of approval. Not only will this seriously hurt the Owyhees, but it will undercut our ability to gain real, unsullied wilderness protection in the future.........."
Read this!!!
"According to the draft bill of the Owyhee Initiative, the plan would also:
Permit motorized use for grazing management in the wilderness area.
Maintain the current levels of grazing in the wilderness area, unless a rancher wishes voluntarily to move his cows out of the wilderness.
Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to trade federal land for wilderness grazing rights.
Permit the construction of new "improvements and facilities" in the wilderness, including "fences, line cabins, water wells, water lines, reservoirs, stock tanks, water haul sites, livestock trailing routes, etc."
Permit unspecified "management actions" in wilderness areas that are designed to "restore native vegetation communities."
Prohibit geographic reductions in wilderness grazing without the consent of the permittee......"
Don't sell out! Fight the Owyhee Initiative!!
Here's the rest of the story:
"We believe the conservationists participating in the OI are engaging in the wrong strategy at the worst possible time. Public land decisions in Congress are currently controlled by anti-federal land ideologues who believe that land is there to be used, not protected. Mike Crapo is from their camp. His "clients" are the cattlemen, the off-road vehicle users, and resource extractors, with only the slightest nod toward environmental concerns required. By participating in the OI, conservationists are letting Crapo and the cattlemen rule the Owyhees, while giving them the green stamp of approval. Not only will this seriously hurt the Owyhees, but it will undercut our ability to gain real, unsullied wilderness protection in the future.........."
Read this!!!
"According to the draft bill of the Owyhee Initiative, the plan would also:
Permit motorized use for grazing management in the wilderness area.
Maintain the current levels of grazing in the wilderness area, unless a rancher wishes voluntarily to move his cows out of the wilderness.
Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to trade federal land for wilderness grazing rights.
Permit the construction of new "improvements and facilities" in the wilderness, including "fences, line cabins, water wells, water lines, reservoirs, stock tanks, water haul sites, livestock trailing routes, etc."
Permit unspecified "management actions" in wilderness areas that are designed to "restore native vegetation communities."
Prohibit geographic reductions in wilderness grazing without the consent of the permittee......"
Don't sell out! Fight the Owyhee Initiative!!