Boulder White Clouds under fire again

[vdigz]

The Boulder White Clouds talk is coming around again. Please take a second and help us voice our opposition to the Boulder White Clouds in Idaho from becoming a national monument.

President Obama can currently use the Antiquities Act and sign the Boulder White Clouds over as a national monument. This ignores the fact that relevant land management agencies already have the necessary authority to protect these lands. Designating the area as a national monument will effectively take options away from managers as they will no longer have the flexibility to apply appropriate management.

Please contact the representatives listed below via email and phone and let them know we Idahoans and Americans oppose the Boulder White Clouds from becoming a national monument and being permanently off-limits to motorized and mechanized recreation, including off-highway motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, recreational off-highway vehicles, 4x4s, snowmobiles and mountain bikes.

This would forever ban these opportunities without regard for local processes and decisions on how the land is most appropriately managed.

Local citizens and stakeholders deserve a voice in land management decisions, but the extremist environmentalists and former Idaho democratic governor Cecil Andrus are pushing the Obama administration and agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack to make the BWC a National Monument. If up to them, this would apply the most restrictive management possible to an enormous tract of public lands while setting aside local collaborative processes.

Please voice your opposition and send or forward to as many Idahoans and pro-motorized Americans as possible.



Idaho Governor Butch Otter - http://gov.idaho.gov/ourgov/contact.html

Mike Crapo - http://www.crapo.sen...ntact/email.cfm
Jim Risch - http://www.risch.sen...index.cfm/email
Raul Labrador - https://labradorform...se.gov/email-me
Mike Simpson - https://simpson.hous...zip5=83702=
White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Tom Vilsack - agsec@usda.gov

 

[vdigz]

Bump!

These guys (Rick Johnson with the Idaho Conservation League, former governor Cecil Andrus and Republican Mike Simpson) are absolutely obsessed with the Boulder White Clouds without any regard for science and the wishes of genuine tax-paying Americans. They are actively "bamboozling" the folks in places like New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Maine who don't really understand the impacts of wilderness/national monuments and what you can and can't do in these designated areas. The BWC have been and is under protection under the Idaho Roadless Rule since 2006 which governs the use from developement, strip mining, road building, etc. This rule already protects our public roadless areas without any federal intervention.

This is nothing more than an elitist mentality in an effort to exclude other user groups and disable local land managers and communities from using public lands for the general public.

Please take a minute and call and write that we are adamantly opposed to this ridiculous top down effort.

Thanks and keep fighting the fight!!!!

 

[Bowtie496]

This idea is gaining momentum, if we don't want to lose some of the best riding in Idaho then we better get vocal.