Nov 14 2008, 09:57 AM Post #1
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HR 5151, a federal house of reps bill that would create and expand wilderness areas; establish new conservation areas; create and add to wild and scenic designations; designate new national scenic trails; add new national and historic park units and nearly a dozen new national heritage areas, is bad for us off-roaders
All told, the bill will create more than a million acres of wilderness, restrict the development of energy resources on various federal lands, and place millions of acres under new or enhanced federal control and further restrict many forms of use and access to public lands.
it would change the way the BLM does multi use recreation
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Congressional leaders say they will ram through an omnibus public lands package after the elections in a "lame duck" Congress. The Roundtable is rallying Westerners to oppose this huge federal land grab. Take action here right now!
This bill, H.R. 5151, includes more than 150 bills that would: create/expand a number of wilderness areas; establish new conservation areas; create/ add to wild and scenic designations; designate new national scenic trails; add new national and historic park units and nearly a dozen new national heritage areas.
In total, this package would create more than a million acres of wilderness, restrict the development of energy resources on various federal lands, and place hundreds of thousands of acres under new or enhanced federal control and further restrict many forms of use and access to public lands.
Not only that, but this bill would lock in, by statute, the Clinton Administration-inspired "National Landscape Conservation System" (NLCS) within the BLM. The bill would give federal land managers the ability to alter the long-standing multiple use management philosophy of the BLM by elevating the purposes to “conserve, protect, restore” above other purposes for NLCS units. This could mean agriculture, energy exploration and production and other economic uses could become imperiled on huge swathes of Western public lands. See a state-by-state analysis of federal lands impacted by NLCS.
Please take 60 seconds and send a pre-drafted communication to your elected official here.
Thank you for helping to stop this very bad legislation.
send letters/faxes to your elected officials HERE
go down in gen chat to the origional posting under the stop bill number5151, the link is in the post