Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance asks feds for off-road vehicle restrictions near Canyonlands
An environmental group has asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to restrict off-road vehicle use on more than 1,000 miles of trails surrounding Canyonlands National Park. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance said Wednesday the trails cross riparian habitat, archaeological sites, wetlands and other sensitive areas. The formal request was filed with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The trails are within 1.2 million acres of land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management...more
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