S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009

[sincityfjc]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Todd Ockert
E-mail: landuse@ufwda.org
Tulare, Ca. 11 May 2009

S. 799 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 will close the doors on Utah recreation!

The wilderness bills keep rolling along in Washington DC.

They are after 9.5 million acres in Utah and the Red Rock area this time. The Omnibus bill was not enough, so now they want to surround Moab Utah with Wilderness!

Here are the areas they are attempting to make into wilderness in this bill.

Great Basin wilderness area – 2,239,700 acres
Zion and Mojave desert Wilderness area – 375,500 acres
Grand Staircase-Escalante Wilderness area – 1,729,540 acres
Moab-LA Sal Canyons Wilderness area – 296,800 acres
Henry Mountains Wilderness area – 434,300 acres
Glen Canyon Wilderness area – 902,000 acres
San Juan-Anasazi Wilderness area – 531,300 acres
Canyonlands Basin Wilderness area – 725,700 acres
San Rafael Swell Wilderness area – 1,106,900 acres
Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin Wilderness area – 1,168,800 acres

This bill was introduced by Sen Durbin of Illinois.

Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 4/2/2009
Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/2/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 4/2/2009
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 4/2/2009
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 4/2/2009
Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 4/2/2009
Sen Udall, Mark [CO] - 5/6/2009
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 4/2/2009

Please take the time to write to your elected representatives, and tell them enough is enough! Most of these lands do not meet the original intent of the Wilderness Act of 1964 “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
If we want to have anyplace left in Utah to recreate, we need to stop this land grab again NOW!


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[TrAiLbUs1]

Man I posted the same thing in General discussion, because I didn't know about this section and got way more hits..I was just about to post here and saw you did already THANK YOU!!! I spread this on all the forums I'm on, I hope everyone takes some time from their days to write to their senators.

[MuddyGrrl]

For Sale:

Parts I used to use on my FJ to get out to said wilderness areas now cut off forever.
Make offer.

[TrAiLbUs1]

^^^EXACTLY!!! Its sad that this section gets almost NO hits in comparrison to OFFTOPIc and CAN I SLEEP in it threads arggg!

PERHAPS the title should be changed to get peoples attention?

[FJ FunJunkie]

Boobies, Fake vs. Real. That'll reel em in.

on a serious note this is preposterous! I cant believe more people dont give a crap, or are just to lazy to do anything about it. Heres a great link Jeshua pointed out to find who to send your letter/call etc to if you reside in CA.
Your Legislature

[sincityfjc]

TrAiLbUs1 previously said:

^^^EXACTLY!!! Its sad that this section gets almost NO hits in comparrison to OFFTOPIc and CAN I SLEEP in it threads arggg!

PERHAPS the title should be changed to get peoples attention?

We are aware of this problem & its on a lot of the big forums.

Need to came up with better names than land use ect.

Her is one that I came up with as a subsection in Trails dept over at JGT

Trails Gone But Not Forgotten

Need to add Tellico ect to it as well as all the closed local trails

Source - Trails Gone But Not Forgotten - Trail Department - Just Good Trails

[FJ_Marine]

Wrote my Senators here in TN and back in my home state of MI. Posted in your thread Jake.