After jumping through 24 months of bureaucratic hoops, the management at Valles Caldera National Preserve is poised to become part of the National Park System.
Management of the 89,000-acre dormant volcano field by a troubled private sector trust has had activists campaigning for its inclusion this year, to stave off possible indefinite postponement by a new Congress January 1. Conservationists, led by a group called “Caldera Action” have pressed New Mexico’s congressional delegation to introduce legislation to abolish the VCNP Trust and transfer the Caldera to the NPS as a reserve where hunting and fishing would continue but national park standards would apply. The bill Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has advanced through the Senate to make the transfer lies embedded in the Omnibus Public Lands Bill of 2010. This is a bundle of individual public land bills from all over the United States. Caldera Action said it is urgent that the Omnibus bill gets time on the Senate floor for passage by Dec. 31...more
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When the perfumed princes of green got to comment on FS land management plans, and the FS caved into their stupid ideas, they got to thinking they knew how to manage wild lands. So they got their chance on the Valles Caldera and failed miserably at everything they tried in turning a profit on this area. The only thing they can do is restrict grazing, the item that kept the Caldera in the shape it was in when they took over. It is a good lesson for all taxpayers to keep the greens out of public land management.
Now the NPS can set some more fires and finish the job they started at Los Alamos!
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